Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: SYD, Australia......Hotels: HHon LT Diamond, Hyatt LT Glob, Marriott AMB (LT Gold), IHG Diamond (20 years SCC and RoyAMB dropped 2024)...Airlines: BA GGL (OW Emerald), LH FTL (*S), QF Plat (LT Gold), VA, UA Silver (*S), SQ Silver (*S)
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My parents were both QF Gold and I got BMI to comp them to *Gold about a year ago (not part of the UK status match though). They didn't have an address in the UK, so that doesn't seem to be an exclusion criterion. I simply had to send them a screen shot of their QF accounts (I simply chose one where the date was also displayed, it wasn't the account summary, but I forgot how I found this...play around with the online account and you may come across the right page that shows status and date at the same time).
It was very quick and no questions asked. They never took any BMI flight, so that wasn't necessary to be comped. Good luck!