Originally Posted by
bnhall
FWIW, I've status matched 3 airlines from Delta this year:
1. FROM: Delta Platinum Medallion (exp 2/14) TO: Emirates Gold (exp 10/13)
2. FROM: Delta Diamond Medallion (exp 2/14) TO: Turkish Elite (exp 11/14)
3. FROM: Delta Diamond Medallion (exp 2/14) TO: United 1K (challenge 35k "qualifying" miles in 90 days)
So, you are DL Diamond Medallion and managed to get UA 1K, that's good... I am AF/KL FB Platinum Elite and got UA Gold. I complained, arguing that FB and SkyMiles are two parallel programmes with same benefits whereby Platinum means Platinum if not Diamond, but UA replied that their marketing department determined that AF Platinum is equivalent to DL Gold (and no matter that I am Platinum for life, by the way). I pointed out that in terms of benefits, FB Platinum is pretty much like 1K, and it's not my fault if there is no higher level in FB (except the invitation-only Club 2000 / Skipper, similar to Global Services with DL I guess).
I also got the TK match, but they never sent me a card dspite reminders, and systems in other Star Alliance airlines don't recognize the number, so was pretty useless so far.
How did you get the match with EK, whom do I have to write to ?