Originally Posted by
FlyingYorkie
One question i have as this is a frequent flyer forum. Will BA offer a KLM card holder fast track to an equivalent status in BA or is that not possible. I shd imagine there are a lot of KLM card holders who wld like to try this but are loathed to not be allowed in the lounge due lack of card for a year.
BA very rarely status match and the only examples I can think of involved bmi in some way. As well as the status match after taking over bmi, they also status matched diamond club members from the Netherlands, Israel and a few others when bmi pulled out of those countries.
One thing BA could do if they didn't want to status match Flying Blue is to instruct the lounge to also allow FB Gold and above into the lounge on a BA ticket. BA did this at Newcastle for diamond club members when bmi scrapped the Teesside service.