Originally Posted by
sfozrhfco
Uggghhh...looks like conversion will be to MVP Gold losing the benefit of free award changes. Guess I will have to burn my VX points more quickly and just forget about flying on AS next year.
I status-matched VX Gold to AS last year, before the merger talks came out, and was matched into MVP Gold only. I had about 74,000 status points for the year at the time (it was November 2015).
I did not end up flying AS a single time in 2016, so the status-match was pointless anyway. I often checked, but AS didn't fly non-stop any route that I needed all year (most of which was SFO to NYC, DC, Chicago, Dallas, and LA).
I did credit a couple of Delta One transcons to AS and got slightly better points as a result of the match, I guess.