I'm sorry. I'm a noobie, and I really did read every post in this thread, over the period of more than a week; I just can't remember it all. And I did check with my copy/paste of the AA Elite Status qualifications web page, but it wasn't there (that I found). A was mostly just musing about it, until my schedule sort of cleared. ("Sort of" means that now I'm leaning away from flying immediately after that MR to Aruba, and am leaning towards driving down to Orlando).