Originally Posted by
malibert1
Hello Flyertalk
I have also purchased a very affordable TK ticket in W class in February only to find out afterwards that the mileage credit won't transfer to United as I hoped. I'm flying IAD-CPT, so I will be travelling around 21,000 miles, but likely won't be flying TK for the foreseeable future.
But if I post this 21k mile trip to a M&S account, and then fly 4k more miles in 2014 on United and direct those miles to the M&S account rather than my UA account, I'd achieve Classic Plus status with TK. But how can I turn that status into something useful on United or other Star Alliance flights? Is that what status match is?
Thank you, sorry if this is a basic or misplaced question.
The best would be to put those miles on Aegean Miles & Bonus.
You would be Star Alliance gold straight away !
Status match is when you send a copy of your gold card with one airline, and ask the other airline to match, that is to give you gold status straight away. TK does it.