Yesterday on Twitter, I saw a note about a (possibly targeted?) Fast Track to elite status on American Airlines
American Airlines Fast Track to Elite Status! http://t.co/SeewFiJlHu
— Esther (@esthery) September 4, 2015
Fast Track to elite status details
You can earn Gold, Platinum or Executive Platinum status by flying the following amounts between September 14 and December 23
25,000 Elite Qualifying Points (EQP) for Executive Platinum status is a pretty good deal (as you can see, normally it takes 100,000). Â You can fly American, or on US Airways, Finnair, British Airways, Iberia, Qantas, Iberia or Japan Airlines (but not other oneworld alliance partners such as airberlin or Cathay Pacific)
(SEE ALSO: Introduction to Air alliances)
You’ll keep your status through February 28, 2017.
Note that many elite status challenges are limited to once per lifetime. I did read one post indicating that you could do an American Airlines fast track challenge twice every 5 years, but I was not able to find definitive confirmation on this.
(SEE ALSO: Hotel status match – how to match at each chain)
Possibly Targeted?
Now, the fine print of the signup page does say that
This is an exclusive offer only for select AAdvantage members who receive this message from LinkedIn and who do not hold AAdvantage Gold, Platinum or Executive Platinum status as of September 14, 2015. AAdvantage elite status members are not eligible for this offer.
So it certainly seems like it is intended to be targeted, but many times, there is nothing stopping others from also signing up. I know several people that didn’t receive the message that signed up anyways.
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Many thanks for the post. I won’t qualify as I am Lifetime Gold — or at least should not qualify, but I signed up anyway — but my partner might.
We will see and hope for the best!
Would not known of it had it not been for your posting of same.
Again, as always, many thanx!
You’re welcome!
If you sign up for the “Platinum” challenge and fall short of that but say get enough for Gold, do they give you gold? Or nothing since you missed your target?
I have enough flights coming up to qualify for Gold but not platinum … not sure if something will come up or do a mileage run to get that next level …..
This challenge doesn’t seem to be targeted to a particular level – so I think if you make the gold level you’d get gold. You don’t get “unlimited” challenges though so if you do one now, it means you might not be able to do one later. Up to you if that’s worth it
Yeah, I don’t fly a ton but happen to have some longer flights arranged in the upcoming months (some already booked on AA, conveniently). I’ll take it for what it’s worth. FYI I believe you to be correct – when I signed up it said I would be notified by email and it did not ask me to “pick” a level. Thanks!
If you sign up for the Platinum Challenge and don’t make it, you will NOT get Gold status; However, if you sign up for the Gold challenge and hit the Platinum benchmark (10K POINTS) in the 90-days, you can call up AAdvantage and pay the additional $120 to get Platinum status. I’m speaking from experience here, for reference. The only small caveat is that you end up paying more (by approx $20) to get Platinum status this way, but at a bare minimum you will get Gold if you hit the 5K POINTS target.
Thanks for the shoutout! I should probably mention that I first heard it privately from @krtlarson 😀 Hope it works!!
Thanks esther for the shoutout! Glad I could help, hope it works for everyone!
I just call American and I was enrolled on Sept 9th even though I did not get an email. So it worked when this link went live. I suggest calling since it seems to be in process. She said it actually began for me Sept 9th and I have till Dec 23rd to accomplish the challenge. 5,000 gold/9,000 plat 25,000 Ex plat.
I just called American to request the normal paid status challenge and did not even mention this that I had signed up for off the link online. But she said that it was already on my AAdvantage profile. The agent confirmed I had from 9/14/15 until 12/23/15 to earn the EQP. She also confirmed you would earn status at each level as soon as you hit it and kept going, so Gold as soon as you hit 5k EQP on the way to Plat and EXP. And for until Feb 2017, your status would just remain at whatever top level you hit by December 23rd.
Hello – – I registered my partner for this… I got a confirmation screen saying “Thanks for registering – – you will be getting an email prior to the start of this – 9/14” Or working to that effect.
We have not gotten anything yet. Has anyone? Just saw ATX’s post.. wondering if any more.
Thanks,
I didn’t call but just got the email that I was enrolled. I came back here to give a huge shout out to @POINTS TO A CREW and @MILESTOMEMORIES! Thanks!
Thanks so much! I got a couple of notes from people saying they got an email from American, so it sounds like if you were entered, you probably got an email!
Any more info on the program that requires registration by 9/23/15?
AA exec Plat challenge register by 9/23/15 – how do we find a new link?