Originally Posted by
the810
But SAS gave me an easy Gold as part of their alliance switch, and *A was happy to match it for the same reason, and so I'm in a situation when I get benefits on *A but not on ST since for most part, ST doesn't recognise SAS status.
That's a strange statement considering the many experiences right in this thread. In my case, of the 15 airlines flown only AM did not recognize EBG automatically (and the benefits were granted manually anyway), even that may be fixed as per the post just above.