Originally Posted by
hobo13
Yes, that's true. But do you actually earn/maintain status on BMI *and* UA, or did you just status match to BMI? Because I certainly wouldn't trade 1K on UA, for being 1P on UA *and* Gold on BMI. In the most simplest sense, that seems to be trading 6 SWU's and lots of CR1's for domestic lounge access. Am I missing something? Now if you fly 150k a year and can get 1K *and* BMI gold, that's another matter. But from your profile, that doesn't seem to be the case.
One strategy is to just get it for a year and it basically acts as a free RCC membership (only valid when traveling on a Star flight and you don't get free internet, but still). Otherwise one can try to maintain it, although I'm guessing after this year the BMI DC program won't be quite as lucrative as before.
Keep in mind that this may very well be the last opportunity to status match to BD, since things'll change when LH gets their hands on 'em.