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Old Nov 14, 2015, 2:10 pm
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TPJ
 
Join Date: Jun 2008
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Originally Posted by dromack
I always have my card with me.
ooops - my bad - wrong assumption

FYI.. There is a portal for Star Alliance employees (no password required so one can access it without breaking the law) https://portal.staralliance.com/employees/

and the rules are:

Where a discrepancy exists between the loyalty status levels displayed on the frequent flyer programme card, boarding pass, other document presented and/or the Star Alliance Premium Customer Database, the highest displayed level will be honoured. For example, boarding pass shows xx*S (xx = airline code *S=Star Alliance Silver), but customer presents a valid FFP card showing the Star Alliance Gold logo: customer must be given access to the lounge.
Link: https://portal.staralliance.com/empl...ports/branding

I always have a printout of this page and it already saved my a.. a few times. (The page and rules were discussed many times on the old BD forum as BD had a really terrible IT department, so we - the BD flier community - had to help ourselves)
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