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title: "What is Status challenge? | Benefit Systems"
description: "A status challenge is a time-limited offer to earn status by completing a reduced number of flights or nights within a short window."
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# What is Status challenge?

A status challenge is a time-limited offer to earn status by completing a reduced number of flights or nights within a short window.

Also called: Elite challenge.

## How it works #

A challenge compresses the usual qualification period into a few months and lowers the threshold at the same time. Fail it and the effort is lost: the trips count only towards normal earning and the status never arrives. It therefore makes sense only when the travel is happening anyway, otherwise flights get bought to reach a result that could have been had more cheaply.

## Not to be confused with #

A status challenge is not the same as regular qualification: the challenge runs in its own shorter window with its own thresholds.

## In German #

The German term is Status-Challenge. [German version of this term](/de/glossar/status-challenge)

## Related terms #

- [Status match](/en/glossary/status-match): A status match is the transfer of status from another programme: a provider grants a comparable tier in order to win the customer over.
- [Elite qualification](/en/glossary/elite-qualification): Elite qualification is the proof that enough flights, qualifying miles or spending have accumulated within a defined period to reach a status tier.
- [Mileage run](/en/glossary/mileage-run): A mileage run is a trip booked purely to collect the qualifying miles or segments still missing for a status threshold.

## Articles that use this term #

- [What is a status challenge?](/en/knowledge/status-challenge)
- [What is a status match?](/en/knowledge/status-match)
- [How many flights do you need for airline elite status?](/en/knowledge/elite-qualification)
- [Is a mileage run worth it?](/en/knowledge/mileage-runs)