Originally Posted by kellytoronto
Now if only there were some codeshares with BA from some of those spots, it would become a lot easier to have NA golds.
I'm sure you could do this and build a codeshare itinerary with AA; they fly to many (all?) of BA's Caribbean destinations. As an example, I flew GND-MIA-LAX-OGG-LAX-MIA-GND last month on AA, combining it with some BA Caribbean short hops (to which I positioned from PHL on AA), to achieve a substantial chunk of my Gold renewal in one trip. I did not do this on a single itinerary, because that would have increased the cost dramatically--but it could be done.
I'll be doing those trips annually--or more frequently if I can manage it--for the next 4000 TPs until I hit LTG.