Thanks for all the great help. I think number of flights will be very beneficial and i might as well get to the gold status and get a shot at moving up to F. Not the longest flight in the world, but I think with the plat challenge and the number of flights that's enough to make me go AA. Plus, we sat in the exit row seats on a Y booking code ticket over xmas and that made the ord-sna flight much nicer.

thanks again.