Originally Posted by bouncingbug

I highly doubt it, though I never actually tried to be fair. My guess is that it would have to be a regular paid stay that you would earn elite stays/nights on.

On a separate note, does anyone know whether this is stackable with the new Virgin Atlantic promotion? I know you have to do miles and points in both cases, but I'm guessing it doesn't stack since you would have to set preferences to AA/DL vs. VA. Can anyone confirm this is the case? i.e. that one would have to make 4 stays first to get the 50K points from this promotion, and then additional stays for the VA promotion.