That's exactly how I understood it. Thanks for the advice re confirmation of status. I have 4 AA segments booked and I should get above 100,000 q-points for the trip as well (even without creative routing - I simply don't have the time for that).

Lounge acces is not that much of an issue as flying in First will solve the problem anyway, except for intra US flights which I have purposely kept to a minimum (segment and transfer-time wise).

Once again, thanks a lot for your advice.


edited for spelling