Ok, getting down to the wire and when my latest SPG purchase posts I'll have 1M reward points to work with. I'm splitting them between AA(3 @ 120K) and United(1 @132K getting me to 200K).
While I my primary goal is to maximize FF miles, I was thinking about a comment above concerning the possibility of Cat 6 and 7 being combined into a single cat in the new plan, and am leaning toward the Cat 6s....though still tempted by the Cat 7s.
I don't have any firm travel plans that allow the use of the TPs within the one-year window, so will have to see how things shape out after 1 August and hope for an extension into 2020.
My guess is I'll be having to come up with more points to upgrade the TPs, but nature of the beast at this point.
Based on spreadsheet magic I can 'afford':
1) Four Cat 1-5 @ 940K Points and 492K FF miles (leaving me with 60K points for 'as needed')
2) Four Cat 6 @ 1M Points and 492K FF miles
I could do three Cat 7s, but that only gets me 372K FF miles and leaves 190K in the bank.
Thoughts?