AA/One World: 2020 Consolidated Mileage/Status/Challenge Runs help needed
 

In order to organize the end-of-year crush of Mileage/Status/Challenge Run threads, the Moderators have decided to create a consolidated thread for the airlines with the most frequent requests. This is the thread for American Airlines.

For each request, please include the following information in this thread:

Departure Airport:
Miles Needed:
Required Spend or Budget:
Available Travel Dates:
Required Metal or Codeshares okay:

For each response. Please quote the original request.

On behalf to the Mileage Run Moderator team, I would like to express our thanks to the many FlyerTalkers who have risen to the challenge and helped so many members with their helpful suggestions.

These consolidates threads made managing the year end traffic much smoother.

Hopefully, all were successful with their runs.

Pat89339 on behalf of the Mileage Run Moderator team

using this post as its likely the closest and most accurate I could find for what I am looking for, I have a $300 AA voucher and I am in LAX / LAS for a few days in april looking to see if I could hop around between a few airports the more sectors the better in J as I credit to BA and the number of sectors in Business is more important than their distance for me

Departure Airport(s): LAX / LAS
EQMs or EQSs Needed: N/A (As many sectors as possible)
EQDs Needed: N/A (As many sectors as possible
Max Budget:$500
Available Travel Dates: 10 - 13th April
Max # Travel Nights:2
AA only, or Partners Okay:AA
Have Chinese Visa? (Y/N): N

I am looking to start my MR early this year. I been looking for JNB as I believe it will get me at least 40,000 EQM.
Can you help?

Departure Airport(s): PBI/FLL/MIA/DFW
EQMs or EQSs Needed: 40,000-50,000 EQM
EQDs Needed: Any
Max Budget: 2500
Available Travel Dates: any weekends
Max # Travel Nights: 3 days
AA only, or Partners Okay: Yes
Have Chinese Visa? (Y/N): No

If you can get to ORD on a cheap ticket, you can fly CX in Premium Economy to JNB for around $2050. Immediate turn around possible.

ORD-HKG-JNB round trip in PE should earn 43275 EQM and $5770 EQD on AA.

I am trying to find out routes to extend the given platinum pro status with minimum$ spend
Can you help?

Departure Airport(s): ORD
EQMs or EQSs Needed: 20000 EQM
EQDs Needed: 2400
Max Budget: minimum
Available Travel Dates: any weekends before April 19th
Max # Travel Nights: 3 days
AA only, or Partners Okay: Yes
Have Chinese Visa? (Y/N): Y

Departure Airport(s): STL; ORD
EQMs or EQSs Needed: 35,000 EQMs
EQDs Needed: 4000 EQDs
Max Budget: minimum
Available Travel Dates: any; quick turnaround preferable
Max # Travel Nights: 2-3
AA only, or Partners Okay: Operated or marketed by AA or marketed by American Eagle, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, JAL, or Qantas
Have Chinese Visa? (Y/N): No

CX not okay? If you read the post by aglp2k (couple of posts above yours), it shows how you can get the 40K+ EQM and $5700+ EQD for $2100. That is the only ticket I can think of that offers the best bang for the buck!

CX does not work for my purposes.

600 TPs needed
 

Hi there - long time lurker, first time poster. I have spent HOURS, if not weeks trying to come up with some sort of return/ multi-city trip that would get me as close to 600 TPs as possible (or 2 return trips?) Ideally for a budget of no more than ca.1000GBP I have looked at all sorts of options - copying all sorts of suggestions in the tier point forum - but every time I come up against completely different (and much more expensive prices). I thought with the BA sale on until 30 Jan, it would be easier, but so far I am not showing much talent for this! I am TOTALLY flexible time-wise from 11 Feb to approx. 11 March. I am based in Munich but happy to start elsewhere. I would be very grateful for any suggestions. Thank you!

Always appreciate all the help with these requests and the associated dialogue!

Departure Airport(s): ICN PUS NRT
EQMs or EQSs Needed: ~20,000 (EQD is the goal)
EQDs Needed: $3000 (approximately)
Max Budget: $2999 (haha!)
Available Travel Dates: Sometime between 3-6 April would be perfect
Max # Travel Nights: 3 nights
AA only, or Partners Okay: All partners OK!
Have Chinese Visa? (Y/N): Yup

Thanks in advance team, for you searching, fare class buster gurus! You all are the best!

Thank you everyone in advance for any help.

Departure Airport(s): Any US location, preferable JFK
EQMs or EQSs Needed: 58,000 EQM
EQDs Needed: $7,500
Max Budget: as low as possible
Available Travel Dates: Anytime between April and May
Max # Travel Nights: unlimited
AA only, or Partners Okay: All partners OK!
Have Chinese Visa? (Y/N): Yes

I wonder if there is a way to make this into a special fare/ AA Vacations it such that EQDs get prorated by distance-- ICN-EZE $1,279 in AA PE
https://www.google.com/flights/#flt=...2*2.SGD.178002

In any case you should not spend more than $5,473, because you can reposition to YYC (assuming this costs $335 return) and do 2 of the by now famous YYC-LHR-HEL-BKK AY/BA J runs. If you want to spend less you'll have to look at (i) BA PE to Europe, reposition to North Africa/ Russia and fly cheap BA/AY J from there or (ii) Do only 1 YYC-LHR-HEL-BKK AY/BA J run and nest an Asia origin run inside, maybe a CX/KA J KTM-East Coast run, (iii) reposition to Asia in JL PE and do 2 CX/KA J KTM-East Coast runs, or only 1 plus 1 MH J to Oceania.

https://www.google.com/flights/#flt=...3*2.USD.256843

Can you maybe reposition to YYZ? YYZ-LHR-BLR in BA PE is $1,308 on this particular weekend
https://www.google.com/flights/#flt=...;sc:p;sd:1;t:f

Thanks so much for the fast reply. I will look into this.