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Old Nov 18, 2022, 10:23 pm
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Originally Posted by iamhz
Hi all,
With the new partnership / Code sharing agreement between Emirates and AC, will there any Status match? am currently Gold on Emirates (been Platinum few years before Covid) and was wondering if they will give any status that could help flying within Canada (I have no Status with AC)
Airlines use status matches as a way to take business from competitors, not from partners. So it's very unlikely AC will offer any status matches on EK status.

Whether there may be any reciprocal benefits (AC offering benefits to EK FFs based on their EK status when flying on AC and vice versa) is impossible to say at this time. But most of AC's non-*A partnerships don't include any reciprocal FFP benefits; VA is the only one, off the top of my head.
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