Originally Posted by
Eastbay1K
Well, unlike most other airlines, AS drops your status faster than you'd drop a hot potato coming out of boiling oil on January 1 and some of us travel shortly thereafter.
That is true. But I don't think I personally would do an extra mileage run to keep status for the few weeks at most (and probably zero time) until the EK miles post in the OP's case. I would factor the EK miles into my calculation of already-earned miles.