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T-15.01
Eg let's say you have 225000 rollover MQMs and want to extend status. They will use 200k of it for 2025 and 2026 calendar years. Then the excess 25k as MQD or Sky Miles. And, if you'd already naturally earned status for 2025 calendar you can't then use just 100k of the rollover amount for the 2026 calendar year. Or, said another way, you cannot leap frog a year with the rollover banked year option. It's 1 year or more, but all joined together.
You also cannot do it bit by bit. You can't use say 10k excess MQM now as MQD conversion and then later in the year decide how else to use the balance. It's one time.
Not quite. If you have 225K in rollover you can use up it 200K of it to extend status, but can also choose to do a single year of extension for 2025 for 100K MQMs. But as noted, you can't do bit-by-bit and you cannot extend status first earned during 2024. You can only extend your status earned during 2023 calendar year (2024 program year status). If you didn't earn DM during 2023, it's too late to do any DM extensions and it would be pointless to choose extension option if you earn DM status during 2024 (which will qualify you for 2025 program year DM status). Hopefully DL will make this all clear when conversions open up on Feb 28th so that people don't make foolish mistakes.
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Using the 100,000:1 ratio, Members may select the number of years of Status extension they desire, up to the number for which they are eligible. Medallion Status will not be awarded for partial years; any Rollover MQMs exceeding a 100,000 threshold, and which are not used for Status extension, can be converted into miles or MQDs using the applicable conversion rate above"