Originally Posted by abhilife2001

Yes, I was status matched and informed this forum about the same since there is nothing to hide..
I personally travel on airlines I found convenient w.r.t time schedules, frequency and cost ( in this order) and since 90% of my travels had been to European countries in last few years M&M made more sense..
Now EK is the intl carrier from CCU with the most frequencies and it makes sense for me to try that.. but I am in EU at the moment and may not have many CCU flights and was asking hence..
BTW, even we earn are status with some airlines and EK sees benefits in status match for obvious reasons ( Though I understand the anger of someone who has taken the pain for getting to gold )..But its the same for me or any other ffp.. I flew 90k miles last year and was just FTL in M&M.. any other airline I would be gold or Plat and yes btw *Alliance airlines also do status match which affects us..