Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
Why offer status matches for a group of less profitable customers who might well defect regardless of whether they obtain status matches?
AF-KL has rather recently offered status matches to just about everyone under the sun who had a clue and status elsewhere because their gutting of the AF-KL program required trying to replenish the AF-KL elite ranks. That combined with their soft-landings made them a decent status match pursuit even if not really caring about shifting flight/flight credit patterns that much.