Originally Posted by
valuepac
Im going to fall short this year by 10k miles and would prefer not to do a mileage run. Next year I will be flying alot for work and would like to keep my status. Does AA offer me a chance to pay a fee to keep my plat status instead of dropping to gold?
With a AATHX deqm running do a quick transcon from LAX and that should give you the required 10k miles. Even if this year AA offers a buy back program it will be much cheaper this way and you'll also earn ~15K RDMs.