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"Fast Track" and Corporate Challenges
These are mostly targeted or tied to a corporation
These are mostly targeted or tied to a corporation
"Fast Track" challenges may (or not) offer interim status kept if specified terms (usually EQM and EQD minima within a given time period) and may be for one status level (occasionally even to Executive Platinum) depending on the offer and target group. (If the challenge is not met, interim status is rescinded.) Offers have been offered to a AA flyers marketing targets because they opine they might fly more and retain status, a subset of LinkedIn members, members of competing FFPs, members signing up for Founders Card, etc. (Requesting these when one was not targeted is generally useless.)
Corporate status challenges are offered to employees of certain companies. (One can not apply for such a challenge other than through the existence of such a challenge where one is employed.)
Corporate and fast track status challenges may vary in their detail: some may confer interim status and confirm it after the challenge threshold has been met, some allow purchasing status for a period but requiring flight activity to extend beyond. Please be sure to read the terms and conditions of any corporate status challenge offered you, because it may differ in detail from those discussed here.
Most of these status challenges require flying to earn the required Elite Qualifying Miles on "American Airlines, American Eagle®, British Airways, Finnair, Iberia, Japan Airlines, Qantas, as well as eligible codeshare flights" (these are AA Joint Business Venture partners).
Most fast track challenges are targeted, and if someone who was not targeted attempts to sign up the attempt is usually reflected.
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Updated 10 Feb 2017 by JDiver
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Feb 6, 2017, 7:56 am
#76
Join Date: May 2011
Location: NYC (LGA, JFK), CT
Programs: Delta Platinum, American Gold, JetBlue Mosaic 4, Marriott Platinum, Hyatt Explorist, Hilton Diamond,
Posts: 4,895
Spending 4k to get exp doesn't show someone is actually worth having. It just seems petty.
Delta and United don't have revenue requirements on any challenges, even requested ones. I understand AA having an eqd requirement on standard challenges, because anyone can request one, but not on a targeted offer.
Delta and United don't have revenue requirements on any challenges, even requested ones. I understand AA having an eqd requirement on standard challenges, because anyone can request one, but not on a targeted offer.
Feb 6, 2017, 10:18 am
#78
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: NYC,MIA,XFL
Programs: AA EXP, B6 Mosaic, DL PM
Posts: 863
I have no problem with EQD requirements in general. I just think that AA should be offering targeted challenges without them. They're asking a potential new customer to give them a chance - and they're being petty about it. It's not like $4k in EQDs really justifies making someone an EXP anyway, so all they're accomplishing is advertising that they're afraid of being taken advantage of.
Feb 6, 2017, 10:44 am
#79
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: DEN
Programs: AA EXP, AA Million Miles, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 2,586
EQDs are not even that hard to get. I currently have more EQDs accrued than the actual dollars I have spent on the tickets (taxes included). And none of it paid J or F.
Feb 6, 2017, 11:08 am
#80
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: COU
Programs: AA EXP, Bonvoy Ambassador, Hertz PC
Posts: 499
Of course lots of people have noted that AA has pretty good reasons for doing what they're doing. In addition to the oft-cited "uh, they want high-revenue pax" part, I'd also point out the less-often-heard "as it turns out, a passenger who pays $500 to fly through 14 stopovers from home halfway across the world and back without ever leaving the airport at his destination costs the airline a lot more than $500, and thus the airline doesn't want their FF program to incentivize that sort of thing." Really it's pretty amazing mileage runs lasted this long. And given the weird way EQDs work on partners...they're still not quite dead.
But anyway, regardless of whether AA is justified in adding EQDs, it's not hard to see why a lot of people aren't happy about it.
Feb 6, 2017, 11:13 am
#81
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: SEA
Programs: AA LT PLT; HH Diamond; AS 75K
Posts: 2,879
They aren't hard to get but you do have to have the money. Not all of us have someone else paying the way.
Feb 6, 2017, 11:16 am
#82
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: COU
Programs: AA EXP, Bonvoy Ambassador, Hertz PC
Posts: 499
This is actually true for me too. Out of curiosity, did you engineer that on purpose (e.g. buying specific codeshares or partner tickets that were calculated on distance) or was it just by accident? In my case somehow the return half of my COU-DFW-HKG trip got recorded as a "special fare" but I don't know why. I successfully used SWUs both directions. Forward half earned 264 EQD, 8611 EQM, 2904 RDM; return earned 935 EQD, 9111 EQM, 10123 RDM. For a total price including tax of $760, 1199 EQD ain't bad!
Feb 10, 2017, 12:50 pm
#83
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: RDU
Programs: AA EXP; Marriott Titanium; Globalist
Posts: 376
Fast track to AAdvantage elite status - email promotion
My wife just got email from AA (no status currently) offering significantly lower requirements for EQM and EQD:
Earn the required Elite Qualifying Miles (EQMs) and Elite Qualifying Dollars (EQDs) between the date you register and May 26, 2017, and you'll receive status through January 31, 2018.
Elite status level EQMs needed EQDs needed
Executive Platinum 35,000 $4,000
Platinum Pro 20,000 $3,000
Platinum 12,500 $2,000
Gold 7,000 $1,000
Sign up before you travel and no later than March 8, 2017.
Earn the required Elite Qualifying Miles (EQMs) and Elite Qualifying Dollars (EQDs) between the date you register and May 26, 2017, and you'll receive status through January 31, 2018.
Elite status level EQMs needed EQDs needed
Executive Platinum 35,000 $4,000
Platinum Pro 20,000 $3,000
Platinum 12,500 $2,000
Gold 7,000 $1,000
Sign up before you travel and no later than March 8, 2017.
Feb 10, 2017, 1:39 pm
#84
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 37
received it as well. Flew ~20k miles with american last year. Unfortunately have flown ~5k in the last week which would have nearly knocked out this challenge. Currently only have award travel scheduled for the next several month but I see no reason not to register as I will likely have a few flights to book.
Any downside to registering and then not hitting the threshold? I have no plans to pay for a challenge any time soon.
Any downside to registering and then not hitting the threshold? I have no plans to pay for a challenge any time soon.
Feb 10, 2017, 3:32 pm
#85
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: RDU
Programs: AA EXP; Marriott Titanium; Globalist
Posts: 376
Don't see any downside as there is no fee involved.
if you don't hit the qualification levels you're no worse off than if you hadn't registered.
By the way my wife had one paid ticket in 2016 and has never had status with AA.
if you don't hit the qualification levels you're no worse off than if you hadn't registered.
By the way my wife had one paid ticket in 2016 and has never had status with AA.
Feb 10, 2017, 4:27 pm
#86
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: PHX, ICN
Programs: OZ Diamond Plus, Marriott Gold
Posts: 502
I believe in previous years you could retroactively apply flights within 3 weeks of the challenge and have them count, but I'm not sure. You'd have to call AA, but I'd think it'd be worth it if you had a good chance to reach your desired level.
Feb 10, 2017, 6:42 pm
#87
Join Date: Aug 2009
Programs: AA Exec Plat
Posts: 60
Have found the webpage to register, though it asks for the emailed... pity
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...itle=fasttrack
https://www.aa.com/i18n/aadvantage-p...itle=fasttrack
Feb 10, 2017, 6:46 pm
#88
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Boulder
Programs: AA Plat, CX Silver
Posts: 2,361
I received this as well. I don't even remember my last paid flight on AA. According to the email I also get 20 500-mile upgrades.
I'll probably go for it.
I'll probably go for it.
Last edited by txflyer77; Feb 10, 2017 at 9:34 pm
Feb 10, 2017, 8:14 pm
#90
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: TLV now - formerly LAS
Programs: King of Rental Cars, BA Gold, Virgin Gold, AA MM Gold, A3 Gold, SK Gold, Hotel SuperElite
Posts: 7,357
Registration with code HV1MT seems to only work if you were targeted.