It seems that AA is running enough of a promo that it might make sense to try to take advantage (no pun intended). The 5,000 miles Mastercard promo is running consecutively with the fly 4x, get Bose Headphones promo and the triple miles promo. If I fly up to 10,000 miles on any class before 1/16, I can essentially get triple miles for them because I'm flying 10,000 miles on 1/16 in FC, with nothing planned after that through the end of March.

The goal would be to fly not much more than 10,000 miles but to spread it across at least 4 round trips, and not take any time off work.

Also, because of the holidays, I really can't take any time off work in January, but I do have the weekends. I can fly to JFK for about $212 starting on the 9th, but then that would be the only trip there I can take before I leave on the 15th for my FC Mileage Run.

So, it seems that my best bet is to fly somewhere with a relatively good fare (around $200 or so) on a Friday night or Saturday (1/2, 1/3 or 1/9, 1/10), and then do three short round trip hops (less than $100) from there. I can fly out of LAX, SNA or LGB without any trouble. I have been looking at JFK, ORD, TPA, BWI, but I don't see any short hops from those places under $100 each.

Anybody out there have any ideas?