Originally Posted by stan1162

thanks for the quick responses so far. One small point, the only reason I was asking about status matching, is if thru miles/spend we can get even Gold AA status for 2026, it would something. And if we status matched from DL before we purchased and started the trip, would it get us more miles?

Our lifestyle is fully retired, and doing 3 months travel, home to restock, and back on the road for 3 months. We are currently in Argentina, heading to Peru, Bolivia and then Colombia then home in March.

We have Africa in July/August so we are starting Asia next. So, with the 3 months on the road, trip home, we could work the ticket, to come home and pick it back up, getting 2 ( or more) trips out of a 12 month... Thats a LOT of planning.

We have a fair bit of AA miles, DL, LIfeMiles , UR and Cap One points. So we can use those for other parts of the RTW trip(s).

If this gets moved to Newbi, thats fine, thanks again so much for the early insights!

Also, interesting, Circle Pacific... Im going to look at the rules right now.