Originally Posted by
oleum
Anyway this brings up a bigger question. Do other airlines do this? Could you potentially do this and status match across to a more local airline. If VN do this, is it something other Airlines in Skyteam will follow. Will they all honour the STE Plus status?
Selling status directly takes some wind out of the sales of black market sellers and captures revenue that would otherwise go to those guys. That price point seems a little high to me, though.