Originally Posted by
ricardojrsousa
Hello.
I understand this has been discussed earlier but to be completely honest I am not 100% clear on what my requirements are.
I status matched successfully from FB in December 2017. I've flown the international TK flight and got status until December 2018. I am now at 32047 miles since the start of the year (or not ... See last question). The Turkish airlines app shows I need 5453 miles to protect elite status.
Based on the "deal" of status match you should have secured your status.
This is not automated in the software. I assume you also had to request gold elite status extension for one year after having made your first international flight on TK? The same is with having flown over 15k status miles on TK in the status match route. So you have to contact them. A word of caution: rumors are that TK is not always holding their part of the bargain.
Should you fly another 5k you have achieved gold elite status/status extension by the regular route. Even 5k status miles credited into TK from anoter *A airline would get you over this threshold. This is how it worked for me. Status Match, one TK international flight in three months. I only flew 10k status with TK but 50k status with *A in one year, hence I achieved status during this year in the regular route on not on the 15k status on TK as they requested.