I need your advice on status match.



Currently I hold *Gold through UA Premier Gold (until 2021). Therefore, I assume I will be either matched to classic plus or Elite, if at all.



Please correct me if I’m mistaken with my following assumptions, if my status is matched:



1. The trail period will be 4 months in which I will have to have one international flight. The miles collected do not count towards requalification. I also assume that additional TK or *A flights will not count towards status qualification?

2. Only flights taken past month 4 will count towards status qualification.



My issue is the following. There is a 50% chance that I will be doing IAD-IST-JED roughly every two to three months starting from March or April. This will be either in flexible economy or reasonable priced business class.

If my assumptions are right and flights taken in the first 4 month do not yield status miles, I’m wasting 27k miles flying economy or 36k business (135% J class accrual) which I could use otherwise towards qualifying for premier Elite or even Elite plus.

If the above is correct, I’m probably better of just using my UA *Gold status to get in the lounge and achieve status ‘the old fashion way’.



Are my assumption correct?