<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Erasmus:
This is crazy! What, may I ask, does AA Plat get you for your 3 trips a year that makes it worthwhile for you to spend untold hours and hundreds of dollars on a plane for no particular reason? It would seem fare more cost effective to just purchase whatever perks those might be!</font>
As my Flyertalk Coffee Mug says "It's a frequent flyer thing, you wouldn't understand".
The mileage run forum is for people who do just that: get on a plane for no particular reason (other than the miles), spend hundreds of dollars to earn perks and accumulate miles. I earned NW Platinum the same way. All 84,000 miles this year were mileage runs and leisure trips with the exception of one business trip to L.A. (about 5000 miles). I had a great time doing it, met some awesome flyertalk people and will do it again next year.