Do you also get challenges from LH Sen? I thought it was only with the American carriers?

Does anyone know if UA will match Alaska MVP's for their Status Match Challenge?

You can get a challenge on AA regardless of your status on other carriers.

To answer my own question, UA refused to match my AS MVP status because I had a CO match in 2009. I'm moving away from SEA because of work, so will not need to fly AS anymore. Seems like a stupid move on UA's part because now I'll just give business to DL and AA and use my AS MVP status.

Etihad Gold Status Match
 

I saw on a blog that Etihad is status matching to Gold for everyone (not just for the first 500 people as in previous offers) until Feb 22. Details can be found here: http://www.etihadairways.com/sites/E...gold-card.aspx

Edited: The offer has been changed to only those who have a UAE address.

BA --> United
 

I called United to match my BA Gold(one world alliance emerald) status to United, but they would only give me United Gold. Shouldn't it be United Platinum?

It is what UA decide it is.

You can try again, maybe different agent offers more. Wouldn't be unusual for any call centre.

Just open a new account.

I always wonder how strict UA is on one account per person. Anybody has insights?

In my experience, AA has been pretty tame on this especially when the 2nd AA account was opened by Citibank. Merging accounts is handled easily as well.

I wrote several emails to try to convince them to match me to Platinum from AA Platinum. They were brief in their responses and insisted they could go no further than gold.

Well, those are both 50,000 flown mile levels - UA Gold and AA Plat.

What were you arguing?

Greetings all,

hoping one of you might have some valuable input. Am about to go Platinum on AirBerlin this month with 100k flown. My travel is mostly in Germany, less so Europe, and occasionally further afield. I would like to get a Status Match to a Star Alliance carrier for lounge access.
From what I've read, LH is stingy with this - are there other SA carriers which may be more forthcoming?

thanks in advance,
William

Hello William,

You should easily get a status match with Turkish Airlines. They match to ELITE level anyone holding gold status with one of the airline of the 3 big alliances.

okay, thanks. I will give it a try, though i noticed at StatusMatcher that they had been denying AB Gold matches. Perhaps Platinum will have better results.

cheers,
William

That would be because they won't match Oneworld Sapphire status, only Emerald.