Departure Airport: NYC. Can reposition if cheap.
Miles Needed to Platinum: 19,386
Required Spend or Budget: $2395 MQD, Prefer to keep costs below $1k. Not sure if that's possible at this point.
Available Travel Dates: Flexible until Dec. 23.
Required Metal or Codeshares okay*: Partner airline is clearly the only way to do this.
Trying to decide whether it's worth shooting for Platinum. I have an award ticket on Dec. 29 that I cannot use, so getting Platinum would initially be helpful to redeposit that.