Originally Posted by sdsearch

American hasn't done (user-initiated) status matches for years and years. Many airlines, not just American, have replaced status matches with status challenges/trials.

And American doesn't offer any sort of status challenge/trial for Executive Platinum to "more mortals", only for the first two levels (Gold and Platinum). It's rare for an airline to status match or even challenge/trial all the way to the top level; you typically have to demonstrate high spend to them, not just high status somewhere else, for them to get interested.

To see which airlines even do status matches at all, see this thread (in the MilesBuzz! forum):

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...13-2014-a.html