Well, if after your status match expires, you could always open a new frequent flier account with the same airline, and ask again for the status match - you will probably have to use a different email address.

Just sent copy of the gulf card.
Never flown with them

You probably need new mailing address as well. Since most airlines don't cancel membership then you will need a tons of physical addresses for them to send you your new cards.

Wow! thats quite strange, because they refused to match my status with my aegean gold, even though i had around 40 flights on the years statement which i sent them, and then just like that they match you to gold by a copy of your gulf air gold card, without any flights!:confused::confused::confused::confused:

When I asked Hilton for a match for my silver Marriott, they offered me fast track to gold (5 stays or 10 nights within 90 days - which is only offered once in a lifetime). When 90 days past, without those requirements being met, i opened another account, with a different email address, and a different mailing address, then asked for a match from my silver marriott, and again was given fast track to gold. I asked if in the meantime they could give me silver as a proper match, they replied yes, and gave me silver. Right after I got silver, I changed the address on my new account to the same as the one on my old account.
So even if you are right that you have to put a new mailing address for registration, or until you get the match, you can always put in a friend's address temporarily, and then change it after registration or after receiving the match.
All this depends on how desperate you would be for the match!!:):)

(And by the way, i recently signed up for the UK Hilton credit card, which automatically gives the card holder silver status, so i didn't gain much:()

I also remember seeing (i think somewhere in this thread) that Turkish will match again to gold - even if you have been matched before!

And KiteM - you can now add to your flyertalk profile - "program affiliates" - Air Berlin Gold.

They don't match Aegean gold.
You have to:
- Ask Gulfair to match your Aegean gold
- Ask AirBerlin to match your Gulfair gold

Not yet received their confirmation email.

I replied them immediately but received this automatic reply

And on their website my account is still Classic.

So, I hope they'll do it today

Yes - I was just noting how strange that is, that they match Gulf air gold without any flight statements, but don't match Aegean gold even though I sent them a year's statement with over 40 flights!
The reason why Air Berlin (or any airline for that matter) would status match is because you have elite status with another airline, so obviously you would prefer to fly with that other airline, so in order to encourage you to fly Air Berlin as well, they give you elite status too.
Now if someone shows them that he flies Aegean and other Star alliance flights many times a year, Air Berlin should see that as a challenge, so they should match - but they don't, but suddenly when someone shows them a Gulf air gold card, even without proof of any flights, they match it (when they could assume that maybe he got it as a special promotion or because of a credit card etc.).
And besides, the Aegean destinations are much more similar to the Air Berlin destinations, which Air Berlin should see as a challenge, and give matches to Aegean gold customers who will prefer to fly Aegean (or other Star Alliance members) and get 4 free upgrades a year when flying Aegean, etc. whereas Gulf air who are based in Bahrain - their destinations is far less similar to Air Berlin in order to be seen a challenge to Air Berlin.
So, why Air Berlin give matches for Gulf Air gold and not Aegean gold just baffles me!
(Unless I am mistaken, and there are other motives for giving status matches - but I can't think of any - what would those be?)

I completely agree with you....that' weird.
Probably AB thinks it's harder to become gold on GulfAir rather than Aegean.

KF to TK Status Match
 

Was surprised with how quick my status match with TK was approved. I'm currently a KFEG member. I sent my request through the M&S customer service feedback link on the 9th of January and when I checked my account on the 11th of January, my status has been changed to Elite. :D:D:D

WOW! I just saw on the miles and bonus site that Aegean are offering a status match to anyone with Cyprus Airways Sunmiles elite status!

https://en.aegeanair.com/milesandbon...-status-match/

After such a long time of not offering any matches... (see http://statusmatcher.com/company/21263)

Yes, I saw that too yesterday!!!

On another note, I was wondering if anyone has been matched to TK Elite this year? And if yes, how much time did it take for you to be matched?

Have a look at the post two posts above yours ;)

Haha...Thanks!!

KFEG? Sorry, rookie question, what program is that?

i googled it - kris flyer of singapore airlines

Thanks! I googled as well, and it showed Blue1 airlines. They apparently do wet leases of the aircraft to SAS!! :D

Finally EY matched me.
I suggest all of you to directly contact them at [email protected] (they confirmed me the match after less then 1 week from my request).

AB also sent me an email confirming my status Gold

Hi KiteM! I also just received confirmation of my EY gold status! What's next?:):)

EY matched your Gulfair status?

Looking at the statusmatcher website, this makes perfect sense, as Etihad seem to match anyone, and with gulfair in the middle east as a competitor to etihad they would sure match it.

Just received email confirming my match to virgin america. I sent copy of Turkish gold and Virgin Atlantic silver to [email protected] and they matched me to silver after 2 weeks. Probably they don't see Turkish as a competitor, as the route are different...so no gold this time..:(

Now I stop, will start again before A3 status will expire

Aegean Gold

Thanks.

Wonder how long TK takes to match my DL PM status!!! Hoping for a miracle here...fingers crossed!!! :)

Okay a miracle did happen!! They matched my DL PM (ST E+) status to Classic Plus (*S)?? :o:D:confused: Did anyone ever see that??

EDIT: Matched to TK Elite!!!! :D In the email, it was written Classic Plus, but when I logged in, SURPRISE SURPRISE, TK Elite it is!!! Wooohhoooooooo!!!

Strange....
This sounds like when Air Berlin gave me a match from my Turkish gold, I received a confirmation email saying i am gold, and sapphire one world status, and thats what it shows when logging into my account, however i recived my monthly statement from Air Berlin, it said Gold, and next to it there was a picture of a Air Berlin Platinum card, and next to that it says One World Emerald! Maybe it will be First Class lounges for me in Heathrow... I might show the lounge people the statement to get in...

Same here. Statement shows black card and OW Emerald. It's just a bug with their mail.

It is indeed strange. Before you have the physical card, if you travel, I'd advise you to take a print out of your Plat/OWE card, showing the validity of your OWE status, for the first class lounge access. And try to make sure that your status appears on your BP!!

Awesome... will leverage gulf (to TB) with my A3 gold. Been needing a OW airline status for awhile!

Did you send them a statement with the request? Or just a scanned Gold card? Thank you.

When i called up air berlin they told me that i definitely am only One world sapphire - which is the status of the gold card, so according to the letter of the law i am not entitled to first class lounges etc. although there seems to be a glitch in the system as mlqsko pointed out earlier.

You realize there's an invention called the computer and that airlines can just check your alliance status right

Whenever I ask for a status match, I always send a copy of my statement, just in case they wouldn't make the match without it.

See, however, Post #923 earlier, that KiteM received Air Berlin Gold (One world sapphire) just by providing photo of gold gulfair card (which is very easy to get!)

Been over two weeks and no response with AS for MVP GOld 75k. Although I am requesting a match for the 2nd time (first time was for MVP for just two months).

:D Haha...yeah! What I thought OP was referring to was that he had PLAT/OWE status, and it is only showing it in his statement, not any place else!!

NOW I KNOW!! OWS it is!!

I sent Delta copy of united gold status - picture of status from united website, and was refused, because i recived united as a match as well, and have n ot flown with them! This is unlike air berlin who matched KiteM from his showing Gulfair card without flying with them!

Thanks for the reply.

Just a data point: AC matched someone I know to Elite 50K against a plethora of other statuses he had.

Amusingly, the person in question ended up flying so much in the year that he ended it as a Super Elite anyway, thus sort of wasting the status match opportunity, as it's a once-in-a-lifetime thing.

Well, he did gain that the first flights he took with them, he had the status which he wouldn't have otherwise had, which could be what encouraged him to fly more which is the whole reason airlines give matches...

I started with Aegean Gold, matched Aegean to TK gold, matched TK to AB gold, matched AB to United gold. I asked Delta for a match because of my United gold (as they only match UA elite status, not TK or AB or A3), but when they saw the screenshot that i sent them, that my account had no flights credited, they understood that i received it as a match or something else, so they refused to match.