Transferring status
 

I am 1K on UA but have previously lived in Dallas, Philly and other non-UA hub cities in the past. I have requested and been approved for transfer of status to AA, AS, HP (now US), and CO. Usually just takes a call to their FF dept and then faxing in a recent statement.

AS was the fastest (within a day or two of faxing in my statement). All offered the extended status for the rest of that year except AA, which provided more of a challenge situation - fly 10k miles over the next 3 months to maintain.

Would be curious to hear your experiences doing the same and, in addition, whether anyone has had the same airline match status more than once (as I am considering flying AA again for temporary route reasons). I was told it was a once per account opportunity.

Glad it went so well!

This sort of multi-airline, status match question is one of the bread-and-butter topics of the Miles Buzz forum, and I'm going to move this there.

Regards,
cblaisd
Moderator, United

Yes it does. It also consumes your "once-in-a-lifetime" match for each airline. Unless you're planning on flying about 200K miles on all 4 airlines next year it would have been smarter to target the ones you are going to use and save the other comps for the years to come, IMHO.

At least you'll be able to put all those statuses in your FT info for a year.

Are you really going to fly all those airlines to retain your comped status?

To clarify, the status transfers I have completed were done in different years as I was looking to fly another airline based on routes and schedules.