Has any Lumo received reciprocal recognition from other OW airlines? Similar to BAEC GGL receiving AA CK treatment.

On my QF boarding passes it showed as AY Lumo Emerald, on MH as AY Platinum Lumo Emerald - so IME for OW reasons Platsku or Lumo it's all Emerald.

Any other alternative?

as a standard Platinum flying to TLL last week I had a slightly chubbier mid40s lady as a cabin luggage nazi giving me no hope with my small cabin bag and even smaller laptop bag. One had to be taken away. If they did the gate collection I would not mind, but due to refurb in Tallinn airport taxi area each extra minute waited after midnight will transform to extra 10 minutes in taxi queue.

Yes.

Lumo is not invitational status level, so wouldn't make any sense.

I get that people wants to get the most out of their status, but I fail to see the logic in airlines recognising Lumo outside the scope of emerald.

Oneworld has 3 tiers with well established cross-alliance perks. This is already more diverse than the other alliances (that all have two tiers, Star Silver / Gold and ST Elite / Elite plus ) so the alliance perks are pretty finely grained to start with.

Now Finnair wanted to introduce a fourth level to pamper the ARN and OUL commuters, which is fine. Each airline decides on their own loyalty program and can add granularity if they think the three alliance tiers are not enough.

But come on. Why should other airlines recognise this tier? There is a system of three alliance tiers (and frankly some airlines have issues even coping with that) and rules and enumerations are set and procedures are well established. There is nothing in OW to support more tiers.

Even if AY makes a bilateral agreement with say BA, how would it work? Boarding passes and manifests says "Emerald", so the two airlines must create something outside the established OW framework to be able to even know who has the tier. It would also mean creating a separate settlement system outside of existing OW framework for the two airlines/loyalty programs to charge each other for services rendered.

IIRC, OW is a "centralised" alliance, meaning rules, perks and backbone is decided centrally and airlines join the alliance with pretty much one contract. This makes the alliance work in a much more uniform way than Star alliance (which I believe is a mess of bilateral contracts between each of the participating airlines)

Doing bilateral agreements for non-existing alliance tiers means making an alliance inside the alliance. This will be messy and bad for travellers.

Well, adding a little bit provocation to the table, isn' the whole point of FFP's to serve the Frequent flyers, not just couple holiday flyers taking few random long hauls/year and trying to convince themselves being "special" because they pay (quite a lot) few bucks more/mile.

But thenagain, I'm not self-acclaimed loaylty guru, just someone saying out loud the obvious ;)

Neither is BAEC GGL - that would be Premier.
I'm asking since this thread is about soft perks and recognition, not the published benefits. Not sure how this works from agreements and alliances perspective.

Absolutely, and just like I said, every airline can choose freely how to construct the tiers of their own program. Just don't expect BA to send out Concorde Room Cards to Finnair lumos anytime soon. :cool: