Originally Posted by kauppias

Since many airlines only match once you might want to plan accordingly instead of hoarding them all at once... Ie why would you match to three star golds at once?

If you play it right you can get status to last longer

Originally Posted by Epicura

NB: AA marketed flights, operated by EY, do count for the challenge. For eg AUH-JFK or ORD-AUH. But in this case you need a ticket issued by AA and the flight is a codeshare AA/EY.

Or were you talking about the miles you will fly on EY in the next weeks? Afaik (I booked the same) this is an EY Z-fare. Z-fare is excluded from any earnings on AAdvantage, unfortunately. No bonus, and apparently not even base miles.

Perhaps you might want to credit them to AB Topbonus?