Originally Posted by jrl767

hit 100K last month

in the absence of OPM travel, the economics of chasing another year of DL PM under their new rules didn’t make sense any more … MM status still gives “annual complimentary Gold”; downgrading my DL Plat AmEx to Gold still gets me 15% discount on award travel, and I still have a ~300k RDM balance

I’ve been flying a fair amount of AA — domestic in both Main and F, intl in paid J — and decided to experiment with the AA card for AL/AC access based on a 70k RDM bonus after an initial spend that was very easy to obtain

based on my current forecast of travel, I’ll get to AA Gold by the end of the LP year (31 Mar) and will bank a good chunk of RDMs as well … need to purchase some Pay-With-Miles AS F tix in the next few weeks to get a head start on 2025 accumulation toward 75K/100K

I still expect a couple spend bonuses later this year; they obviously don’t enter into my status calculations, but anything that AS leadership decides to do in terms of rollover EQM is fine with me