Originally Posted by
LondonElite
If you can’t meet the requirements of a challenge, you’re likely not if much value to an airline, so why status match you?
Well, not sure what to tell you on that. You'd have to have ask the airlines who do straight status matches without any challenge. :-)
Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
And if you get status then what? What do you expect it will do for you?
Will you fly on the aircraft of the new ffp?
Um, no. I will not fly the airline of that plan. I will fly the US carrier in that alliance, and reap the alliance benefits. In some cases, lounge access is better with the foreign carrier elite status of the alliance than with the US carrier of the alliance.