It would be nice if they moved the meeting back a few weeks. Don't know what they are thinking scheduling it to run to 5pm on a holiday weekend. I can get a status match from AA through our corporate travel agency, so the challenge may not be of much value. I was going to save that until I am gold with NW and required to fly AA. Guess I will either have to be happy with the extra banked miles since I will be gold by then, or work on a 12K mileage run(s). Have been scouting saturday night Red Wings games on the west coast to attend. Will have to play with some creative routings on the rest of my trips for the year and shoot for platinum.