Originally Posted by Tax Dude
It's not very useful for most non-Canada-based fliers but AC Aeroplan also offers this benefit for their top-tier members (Super Elite). It's only 100k of status miles, so a bit easier to obtain than M&M HON.
But easier still is BD (BMI) which requires 38K miles for its top tier of gold. I hold top tier with QF (OW), was status matched to BD Gold (but earned renewal, in spite of the offer to extend automatically for those who didn't use it during the last year) and also status matched into NW Platinum Elite. There's a whole lotta cheap(ened) status on both *A and SkyTeam, while it's great news for the likes of me, I'm sure it must make some of those who loyally fly with them year-in-year-out mightily peeved.