MilesBuzz! - How to do a status challenge

I've read on different boards about doing a challenge with an airline where if you fly X miles in a 90 day period of time, they will give you Y status. Who would I call to try and do that as I have a transatlantic and rountrip NYC flight in the next 2 weeks and would love to have some status for some within the US flights in the coming year.

It depends on the airline.

If it's DL, you will generally not be offered a challenge unless you have elite status on another airline. You need to fly 6,000 MQMs for FO and 12,000 MQMs for GM within a 3-month period. Depending on fare class, you get 1 or 1.5 MQMs per flown mile. However, DL takes 3-4 weeks to process your request and will not make it retroactive, so if you're flying in 2 weeks you may be out of luck.

On AA, anyone can take the challenge and you can sign up immediately. It requires you to earn 5,000 q-points for GLD and 10,000 q-points for PLT within a 3-month period. Low fares earn only 0.5 q-points per flown mile (high fares earn 1.5).

It depends on the airline.

If it's DL, you will generally not be offered a challenge unless you have elite status on another airline. You need to fly 6,000 MQMs for FO and 12,000 MQMs for GM within a 3-month period. Depending on fare class, you get 1 or 1.5 MQMs peer flown mile. However, DL takes 3-4 weeks to process your request and will not make it retroactive, so if you're flying in 2 weeks you may be out of luck.

On AA, anyone can take the challenge and you can sign up immediately. It requires you to earn 5,000 q-points for GLD and 10,000 q-points for PLT within a 3-month period. Low fares earn only 0.5 q-points per flown mile (high fares earn 1.5).

Do the miles have to be on AA or DL metal or can it be on partner's

Q-points on AA challenge can be earned on partners. I just got my AA Gold by flying QF. Don't know about DL though.

I believe you have to be on DL-coded and DL-operated flights, but I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

As this thread is not DL specific, I am moving it over the MilesBuzz.

Rssrsvp - Moderator

does UA do challenges too?

All questions should be answered here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9558

thanks