Neither of us have registered for the status match. We're both Elite, I have been for a very long time. And I also have lots of banked years. So if the promised improvements to the program don't deliver for us personally as J-flying provincial Elites, and deliver soon, we will switch to One World, and rely on the banked years for Air NZ travel.
We've decided to give them one last chance, but we aren't holding out much hope.