Originally Posted by Vhflyer

I had a couple questions and I hope this is the right place to post. My fiancee and I are going to Hawaii for our honeymoon and booked flights using some TY points. As it turns out, our outboard flights got changed and I noticed they are now booked as Y fares.

My question is, would it count as 1.5 pts or 0.5 pts towards the challenge?

TPA > DFW > OGG Y fare = 6937 pts?
KOA > LAX > DFW > TPA N fares = 2328 pts? (any possibility of getting gold status bonus with this trip?)

By my math, this would total about 9265 pts? Does that sound right?

My other question is how worthwhile would it be to try for the challenge? I don't fly that frequently, and the next time I would likely fly AA would be on an awards trip internationally. I'm not sure I'd have another flight within the 3 months span to make it to platinum (which is really in reach, I know). Not sure she would understand me taking a trip solely to make status. So if it would only take me to gold status, is it worth the challenge? Or should I really try to get platinum status?

Thanks for any input you may have.