Originally Posted by
stephem
I am contemplating a move to BMI, after reading the posts it looks like my growing *A flying habits make this a good place to be with 60k+ in C travel. In addition to *Gold with UA, I am also a NW Plt and AS MVP Gold. Any sense of my chances of a status match with BMI with any/all of these these programs? I have a SE Asia address if that makes any difference...
I have a 24k circle pacific fare coming up in a month that I wouldn't mind dumping in to get going. Also, does anyone have the Fax# for requesting a match?
I got a status match to bmi Gold as a Delta PM less than a month ago. It took only about 5 days, and without any problems. One of the things you may miss (in the beginning only) is the 100% bonus RDMs on UA versus 25% bonus RDMs on bmi (35% if flying on bmi metal). But given that you will most likely fly 60,000 miles in Business, it will only take you 27,500 miles of C class flying (i.e 55,000 status miles) on most star airlines to reach the threshold that would convert all your status miles to destination miles (RDMs)... beyond that point, you will be racking miles pretty fast!! One of the great advantages of this program... it greatly rewards premium class flying . Good Luck!