Originally Posted by Regulator11

Hi all, first post on this site. Recently heard about it. I don't know where it has been all these years.

I have been Gold with EK for the last three years. This year I am on around 32,000 miles. I have been flying BA a lot to the US. They have better connections/times into the US.

With not long to ago in the year I have figured that if I can go visit my family in Perth Economy there and in First return then I will get enough tier miles to renew Gold (actually it's around 300 points short but I got the OK from skywards). If you are interested, it's actually not bad value and cheaper than a return business flight.

A friend suggested to me that I now approach BA now to get a status match to my EK Gold, let my Gold lapse with Emirates, forget this crazy idea of the First class seat back to Dubai and then ask Emirates to do a status match with my BA (reminding them that I have been pretty loyal the last few years).

Any thoughts?

Cheers