AirTran Airways A+ Rewards - Do double points count toward elite status?

I registered to BOS-BWI promotion for doule points and I have a ticket booked for thanksgiving. Since most of my wife's family lives in MD we fly down to visit them quite often so I am thinking of "investing" in our future travel.
My wife and I both have 3 credits each for previous flying, 2 of these credits will be in the 90 day time frame until mid-december. This means that if we each get 8 credits by mid december we will qualify for elite status.

Am I right to assume that? Do double credits count toward elite status?

How long can I maintain elite status? Is the elite qualified period different from when you qualify with 25 credits over a year?

I registered to BOS-BWI promotion for doule points and I have a ticket booked for thanksgiving. Since most of my wife's family lives in MD we fly down to visit them quite often so I am thinking of "investing" in our future travel.
My wife and I both have 3 credits each for previous flying, 2 of these credits will be in the 90 day time frame until mid-december. This means that if we each get 8 credits by mid december we will qualify for elite status.

Am I right to assume that? Do double credits count toward elite status?

How long can I maintain elite status? Is the elite qualified period different from when you qualify with 25 credits over a year?

The short answer is no. Only base flight credits count toward elite. Not bonus credits. You must actually fly 10 one-ways or 5 round-trips in 90 days to attain elite status.

That's ashame...

what about this one:

"How long can I maintain elite status? Is the elite qualified period different from when you qualify with 25 credits over a year?"

Thanks

That's ashame...

what about this one:

"How long can I maintain elite status? Is the elite qualified period different from when you qualify with 25 credits over a year?"

Thanks

IT may be a shame, but that's how every airline reward/elite program works.

Regardless of how you attain elite status, it is good for one year from the date you attained it. To keep it, you must fly 6 round-trips or 12 one-ways within that one-year period. It is a lot easier to keep it once you have it.

Elite period is for one year (365 days), beginning after you complete either 10 paid one-ways in 90 days or 25 paid one-ways in 365 days. In my case, it took a few days after I qualified to have elite status post in my account.

RE Keeping status, newsmanhoss is dead on. It takes 12 paid one-way flights during your 365 days of elite status to earn status for the following 365-day period, regardless of how you earned the status in the first place.

Elite period is for one year (365 days), beginning after you complete either 10 paid one-ways in 90 days or 25 paid one-ways in 365 days. In my case, it took a few days after I qualified to have elite status post in my account.

RE Keeping status, newsmanhoss is dead on. It takes 12 paid one-way flights during your 365 days of elite status to earn status for the following 365-day period, regardless of how you earned the status in the first place.

And thanks for mentioning "paid" one-way flights. You don't earn credits for free segments that you may have booked with vouchers or A+ credits.