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Repeating a Challenge
AA Challenges may not be repeated back to back from one year to the next - that is, you may not use a challenge to re-qualify, with the exception of individuals who earned status through ordinary qualification means (ie points, miles or segments) after having successfully completed a challenge within the same year. If you do not requalify within the year, you will be downgraded one level, either to gold or no status. At the end of the downgraded year, you may complete the challenge again to regain your original status. (This info provided by AAdvantage rep on 10/10/2006.). AA refused a second gold challenge (May, 26 2010) even although the original challenge ended in 2008. The rep advised that status must be earned at some point. Also if you had an "exception" the prior year and attained status other than by ordinary qualification based on miles etc. (e.g., you paid a fee to retain status or acquire miles) you then will not be eligible for the challenge the next year -- so assuming you don't then qualify in the ordinary way in the next year you will have to lose status and then enter a challenge the year after that.
Further, it has been reported that members are allowed no more than a total of two Challenges and/or Status Buybacks per 4-5 year period.
As of Feb / Mar 2015, there are reports (from
Lomic and
billgrates3 on flyertalk.com) that the limit on repeat challenges might have been tightened to one per five years.
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