If you mean will DL match your CO elite status, the answer is "no". I say this b/c I was comped to CO gold in '03, and they specifically said I couldn't use elite status as the basis for that. As it happened, I was also and elite on UA, so I used that instead. (Compint to UA should be pretty easy; just call the normal UA line and explain what you want to do, and they will connect you with someone who will explain/help you do it.)

Don't know if the policy has changed but I doubt it.

Best of luck,

O/H

If the benefits are worth it to you go for it. If not, then no worries. Do you like the ug, elite line at security or any other benefits that you may recieve?

Unfortunately I already comped UA and never used it, also comped America West to Plat - earned silver, then dirt . . . . .

Well known that NW won't comp based on CO status, wasn't sure if DL had assumed the same roll now that they are in the axis of evil

The basic lesson is not to waste your comps untill you are sure you can use them (ie wasted comp to UA) - Also got a rare comp to Marriott Gold (don't ask how or who, just got it done) and let it go to waste, after focusing on Hilton Points.

Any other suggestions before I book my mileage run ?????????

UA's policy used to be that they'd comp you every year that you could produce an appropriate status level from anothe airline....it may have changed. They kept me at gold again a year even after I didn't fly enough to qualify for gold (I was midway b/w silver and gold). In any case, the comp worked out for me b/c my company had me flying to Europe for business several times when it was going to be convenient to use *A airlines.

The benefit was really the *A Gold that came with the UA comp, b/c of lounge access and elite boarding lines, particularly (IME) in Vienna, where the serenity of the Austrian Airlines lounge was a far better alternative to waiting in a long line where one's sole entertainment would have been watching the tick races on the the many folks who seemed to have a rather cavalier attitude about personal hygiene.

Best,

O/H

A few years ago I was about 1,000 miles short of silver and CO sent me a marketing letter thanking me for my business, noting that they were extending my status for another year even though I fell short.