And just because you have posted a quote from one of these threads, I would like to post the response that was given in that thread to that post:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by GadgetFreak:
It is completely airline dependent. You can contact an airline you are interested in and ask. I contacted AA for instance and told them I was UA 1K and US CP. They said they would do nothing to comp based on US status but would match UA status, except, they would not comp to EXP. So they comped my UA 1K to AA Platinum. If you look around and call you will see others have very different poicies regarding what carriers they will match and at what levels.</font>
[This message has been edited by attorney28 (edited 05-13-2003).]