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Old Jul 25, 2004 | 1:45 am
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virtualtroy
 
Join Date: Mar 2002
Programs: QF Platinum (OW Emerald); QF Lifestime Silver; BD Diamond Club Gold (*A Gold)
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Official policy across OW carriers is this simply doesn't happen. But that doesn't mean it's unheard of, particularly in the competitive North American market.

While the AA scheme may better suit your needs, I fear that you'll prove less successful trying to blag a straight status match from them - particularly now that *A has cheapened its own scheme through the status match offer.

If you want to do it the hard way, sign up for the AA Platinum Challenge (plenty of threads dealing with this if you do a search in this or the AA fora).

You could try seeing if BA would status match you (do a search on this in the BAEC forum), but retaining BA Gold may prove a challenge.

Alternatively, a creatively-routed AONE* should take you from Bronze to Platinum in the QF FF scheme. But again, there's the consideration about how you retain it come renewal time.

I'm sure others wiser than myself will have some advice to add. Best of luck.
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