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Old Jul 26, 2013 | 12:55 am
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Originally Posted by sigbjod
As a note, you might want to keep in mind that the status of the person travelling and not the person buying the ticket counts. For example, if you were to be a FB Gold member, but the person travelling has no FB status, he/she would not benefit from your status in terms of allowed extra luggage or lounge access.
While what you say is true, it still seems that most status benefits are indeed granted on tickets like this. Probably not lounge access, but baggage allowance should be OK.

I get the feeling this is not an issue in the present case anyway - I don't think the OP has status.
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