These airlines are extending frequent flyer status
 

Please see Wikipost above for updated list of airlines extending status.

These airline loyalty programs will extend your frequent flyer status - link
Don't let your shiny frequent flyer card lose its lustre: these airlines will extend your status by up to 12 months.

By David Flynn , March 31 2020, Executive Traveller

In this article:

• Aeroflot Bonus
• Air France Flying Blue
• Air New Zealand Airpoints
• Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan
• British Airways Executive Club
• Cathay Pacific Marco Polo Club
• Emirates Skywards
• Etihad Airways Guest
• Finnair Plus
• KLM Flying Blue
• Qantas Frequent Flyer
• Qatar Airways Privilege Club
• Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer, PPS Club
• Virgin Atlantic Flying Club
• Virgin Australia Velocity Frequent Flyer

Downloadable spreadsheet: https://bit.ly/loyalty-response-covid19

Interesting: not a single US carrier and one (1) from *alliance (SQ).

Air New Zealand is also star alliance.

When did Alaska secede from the union?

And British Airways is not extending the frequent flyer member status period, merely reducing the (re)qualification threshold for memberships expiring in April, May and June(*) and extending the expiry date of any 'companion' or upgrade vouchers you may have acquired.

To be fair the article does make this clear, but the headline is somewhat misleading in the context of several airlines' actual offering.

(*) similar allowances are expected to be made for Jul, Aug and Sep etc. as the crisis drags on, though nothing has yet been confirmed.

...and so is SQ.

My feeling is............just give it time.

The virus hasn't finished ravishing the airlines yet. We have another 4-8 weeks of major distress ahead, followed by..who knows since we don't yet have a good handle on post-surge disease behavior.

I would really like to see what this list looks like in 6 months.

Just because it's not in the article, doesn't mean it's not happening. :-) A3 has extended status by 6 months.

More detailed overview on extensions and their terms at https://bit.ly/loyalty-response-covid19

Turkish Airlines have extended Elite and Elite+ status with 6 months. As of yesterday.

LATAM extended 1 year their status
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/lata...l#post32258412

Alaska isn't really extending any status at this point yet. Sure they have a bonus elite miles offer going on, but it doesn't help when no one is flying.

The TATL-flying US airline industry cartel kingpins seem to be deliberately slow in putting forward status extensions or other status acquisition/retention waivers of sort in place.

BA and a few others fall into that category, but headlines are very limiting in terms of character length and also the need to get the core of the message across while also making it appealing.

Good to hear, but has this been confirmed by TK or is this just based on reports by M&S members of a wave of six-month extensions?