I was wondering.

Couldn't have done it without the great help here! And I have been very good at keeping it to about $0.01/mile or less. Less than 20K in CC purchases (dispelling speculation that I'm just running business $ through CC purchases).

My butt is starting to get a little worn out, after five of six days last week doing IAD-DFW-OAK and back 1-day MRs. 2 days of the same this weekend too. Needed to go from 14,538 EQM to past 50k to retain Plat (!), which I wasn't sure I was going to do, until a nice fare posted in the MR forum (which I check everyday). Next weekend is the FLY06 bonus that came up within days after I ticketed requal for Plat--ORD in mid-December, I shudder at the potential for delays and irregular ops (and no good opportunities for picking up more miles, like I did in last week's ice storm switching a cancelled DFW-IAD flight to DFW-BWI [co-terminal, and included in the AA2XM bonus^ ] that I had mapped out in advance in case opportunity struck. )

Steve