Originally Posted by
thorba
I think the validity has something to do with the validity of the card that is being status matched. My BA Gold card is valid till April 2017 so prob that's why!
It's specifically mentioned in the official Alitalia link that if the competing status is valid after Mar 2016 (i.e. expiry of Apr 2016 and later, presumably also including lifetime
), the matched AZ status will last until Mar 2017.
Just managed to scrape the threshold with my AB Gold which is valid thru April 2017.