Originally Posted by Gardyloo

I'd also mention that if you buy a DONEx ticket and credit the miles to your AA account, and do all the travel during the same calendar year, it amounts to over 110,000 elite-qualifying points, so you'd end up as Executive Platinum, with a year's free domestic upgrades and 8 electronic system wide upgrades, not to mention double mileage on eligible flights (in addition to business/first class class of service bonuses.)

The trip could earn you as many as 160K "spendable" miles, enough for another RTW in business class later.