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How to do a status challenge
I've read on different boards about doing a challenge with an airline where if you fly X miles in a 90 day period of time, they will give you Y status. Who would I call to try and do that as I have a transatlantic and rountrip NYC flight in the next 2 weeks and would love to have some status for some within the US flights in the coming year.
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It depends on the airline.
If it's DL, you will generally not be offered a challenge unless you have elite status on another airline. You need to fly 6,000 MQMs for FO and 12,000 MQMs for GM within a 3-month period. Depending on fare class, you get 1 or 1.5 MQMs per flown mile. However, DL takes 3-4 weeks to process your request and will not make it retroactive, so if you're flying in 2 weeks you may be out of luck. On AA, anyone can take the challenge and you can sign up immediately. It requires you to earn 5,000 q-points for GLD and 10,000 q-points for PLT within a 3-month period. Low fares earn only 0.5 q-points per flown mile (high fares earn 1.5). |
Originally Posted by vasantn
It depends on the airline.
If it's DL, you will generally not be offered a challenge unless you have elite status on another airline. You need to fly 6,000 MQMs for FO and 12,000 MQMs for GM within a 3-month period. Depending on fare class, you get 1 or 1.5 MQMs peer flown mile. However, DL takes 3-4 weeks to process your request and will not make it retroactive, so if you're flying in 2 weeks you may be out of luck. On AA, anyone can take the challenge and you can sign up immediately. It requires you to earn 5,000 q-points for GLD and 10,000 q-points for PLT within a 3-month period. Low fares earn only 0.5 q-points per flown mile (high fares earn 1.5). |
Q-points on AA challenge can be earned on partners. I just got my AA Gold by flying QF. Don't know about DL though.
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I believe you have to be on DL-coded and DL-operated flights, but I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
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As this thread is not DL specific, I am moving it over the MilesBuzz.
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does UA do challenges too?
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All questions should be answered here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9558 |
thanks
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