Originally Posted by Gardyloo

They're not stupid; however there is a reasonably adequate search function that can also be employed. Regarding the challenge and AA earning issues, the AA board is arguably a better place than the Oneworld board for those questions.

That said, the start date for the challenge is what matters; having the challenge period overlap the end of the calendar year has no bearing on your status if successful. Whether you sign up for the challenge in late 2006 or early 2007, if you qualify your status will last until the end of February 2008, at which point you'd fall to Gold until the following February. Of course if you earn 50K points/miles during Calendar 2007, your Plat status will last until Feb. 2009. The Plat bonus kicks in with the flight on which you cross the 10,000 Q-point threshold, so it would be a good thing to make sure that one is a biggie, rather than having the flight before that one be the biggie, if you get my meaning.