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If you're flying a fair bit anyway, I recommend you look in to doing an AA Platinum Challenge. http://www.flyerguide.com/wiki/index.php/Challenge_(AA) http://w

If you're flying a fair bit anyway, I recommend you look in to doing an AA Platinum Challenge. http://www.flyerguide.com/wiki/index.php/Challenge_(AA) http://www.flyerguide.com/wiki/index.php/Challenge_(AA) It'll help you get bonus miles for flights you're doing anyway, and AA is actually not a bad airline when you have decent status with them.

ben1040 16y ago
This was the best advice I was ever given before taking a job that had me traveling 4500 miles a week. If I didn't do the challenge, I would have left 50,000 bonus miles and a bunch of upgrade stickers on the table. At the time it was free to do, so there was no downside, but if you're going to fly enough to qualify for platinum or executive platinum anyway the fee for the challenge is well worth it to get the bonus miles and priority boarding that much sooner.
- goatforce5 16y ago
  I'm a little taller than average, so being able to prebook exit rows for free even when travelling on the cheapest economy ticket was worth it's weight in gold (or platinum. Ho ho!). I was doing a lot of transatlantic at the time, so it really was a big deal. Your status must come up when you book ("Oh, you travel with us a lot. We'll just ignore the overweight bag fees today then...") and on the passenger manifest (more than once I had free drinks given to me, or better brands of drinks brought back from First). Now that I have no status they don't go out of their way to do those things, despite having a ton of miles i'm slowly working through, and a bunch of unusable upgrade stickers. Meh. The recent flight to Hawaii paid for with some of my miles made up for that though.
ronnier 16y ago
I did just that. Earned a lot of mileage traveling internationality, then took a big trip on airline miles. I'm at 30 countries in total now and still have a lot of miles. http://ronnie.me/gallery http://ronnie.me/gallery if you'd like to see.

ben1040 16y ago

This was the best advice I was ever given before taking a job that had me traveling 4500 miles a week. If I didn't do the challenge, I would have left 50,000 bonus miles and a bunch of upgrade stickers on the table. At the time it was free to do, so there was no downside, but if you're going to fly enough to qualify for platinum or executive platinum anyway the fee for the challenge is well worth it to get the bonus miles and priority boarding that much sooner.

goatforce5 16y ago
I'm a little taller than average, so being able to prebook exit rows for free even when travelling on the cheapest economy ticket was worth it's weight in gold (or platinum. Ho ho!). I was doing a lot of transatlantic at the time, so it really was a big deal. Your status must come up when you book ("Oh, you travel with us a lot. We'll just ignore the overweight bag fees today then...") and on the passenger manifest (more than once I had free drinks given to me, or better brands of drinks brought back from First). Now that I have no status they don't go out of their way to do those things, despite having a ton of miles i'm slowly working through, and a bunch of unusable upgrade stickers. Meh. The recent flight to Hawaii paid for with some of my miles made up for that though.

ronnier 16y ago

I did just that. Earned a lot of mileage traveling internationality, then took a big trip on airline miles. I'm at 30 countries in total now and still have a lot of miles. http://ronnie.me/gallery http://ronnie.me/gallery if you'd like to see.