Northwest Airlines wants to serve all your travel needs for business or pleasure. That’s why, beginning January 1, 2005, we’re allowing all paid fare classes eligible to earn WorldPerks miles on Northwest or any of our Elite Qualifying Airline Partners (Continental Airlines flights in Q, I, S, W, T, X, L classes; Delta Air Lines operated flights are excluded) to count towards your Elite Qualifying Segments (EQS) for the 2006 program year! Elite Qualifying Miles (EQM) required to achieve Elite status will remain the same as in 2004. To earn Silver Elite status you must earn 30 EQS or 25,000 EQM, Gold Elite status needs 60 EQS or 50,000 EQM and to earn Platinum Elite status you must earn 100 EQS or 75,000 EQM.