Originally Posted by
iahphx
This is troubling to me as well. I'm a lifetime CO Platinum, but I wind up flying the Star Alliance airlines a fair bit. I status matched US in late 2005 (and they gave me 2006 as well), but I lost interest when UA kicked the US elites out of Economy Plus. I currently have a lot of Q4 reservations on UA and US, so I was thinking of trying for a Mileage Plus match -- hoping to carry that status into 2008. But it sounds like this won't work too well for me -- probably about half the miles will be on US, so I might not even get to 12,000 UNITED miles in 90 days.
Is there any other way to play this? Thanks.
I called the UA Prem. Exec. Customer Service line and the agent told me the date is a mistake; that if I match within the 90 days I will have status through Feb 2009. I should probably call again to see if I get the same answer.
Also, your US flights will count toward the status match challenge as well:
EQM and EQS are earned on United, United Express, Ted and the Star Alliance members listed below:
Adria Airways | Air Canada | Air New Zealand | All Nippon Airways | Asiana | Austrian Airlines Group | Blue1 | bmi | Croatia Airlines | LOT Airlines | Lufthansa | SAS | Singapore Airlines | South African Airways | Spanair | Swiss International Air Lines | TAP Portugal | THAI | US Airways | Varig