Impending changes for OW awards

[pilot]

Apologies if these questions have already been answered and I failed to spot them...

1) I believe the OW award rules will change shortly and now all flown segments will be counted for mileage levels (and not just the miles between two stopovers, regardless of how one flies between them, as is the current practice). If this is true, does anyone know when the bomb is likely to drop?


2) If I was an AA Plat up to 2006 (and am merely Gold now), can I sign up for a Plat Challenge to qualify on the basis of 10,000 flown miles?