Originally Posted by
JohnAx
"Extra miles" are usually secondary unless you have a specific mileage goal.
At the moment, aadvantage allows you to qualify for status using either "q-points" or miles, and premium-class trips earn 50% more points than miles. But aadvantage offers (at present, USdbaAA isn't finished birthing, so anything may change) a "platinum challenge" which earns platinum status for signing up, paying a fee, and earning 10,000 points in a short period. So this time around you don't have to be a mileage whore like the rest of us, scrabbling for our 50K miles or points.
Read up on this a bit.. Thank you for the pointer. Is the order of operations then, call AA to enroll for platinum challenge then book with OW and apply the miles/points to the challenge? If I choose to fly Business Class on this RTW trip are there still material advantage to being enrolled in this program (I've never flown anything but economy to date).