Originally Posted by SanDiego1K
Keep in mind that each airline and hotel generally allows one status match in your lifetime. You want to request the match in the year when you will truly benefit from it - and it is unlikely that you can effectively use multiple air or hotel comps the same year.
I would agree with the above save one possibly useful item/revision that I would apply in some cases:
"One status match in the lifetime of a given account number."
... and even when the status match restriction applies for the lifetime of an individual person, some programs do a very poor job of noting that you've been status matched before.