yes to all your questions

CO will most likely not join * until the end of this year.

Looking for timing suggestions on a NW match
 

I am currently AA Plat and have zero status with NW. My company has been booking me on flights from RST/MSP to DXB via AMS on NW. I will be flying the DXB-RST leg in march as well as one more RT in the second half of the year. Any suggestions on when the best time to request a status match would be? AA will still be my carrier of choice for personnel travel but unfortunately I am bound to NW/KLM for corporate travel. Just trying to maximize everything....

Bye bye NW! Hello CO! (status match)
 

Took less than an hour to get my status match from CO today via email. I was/am Gold on NW, and now I'm Gold on CO. It was a great run with NW while it lasted, but guess what -- its over!

Back to CO
 

Continental turned around a status match request in less than two hours with an e-mail with copy of NW Gold card and recent WorldPerks statement print attached. Currently, I'm WP Gold, but slipped to Silver for the coming year (already had started to hedge my bets with the takeover). CO comped me Gold for the coming year.
Credited my first flight to One Pass yesterday and it felt good. DL in a few short weeks has killed 10 years of loyalty to NW.

Yup, it is immediately reflected online and you can print a temporary Elite card until they send you one.

Any luck with Delta?
 

Has anyone had any luck getting a match from Delta.
I requested GM from DL to match my GE status on CO.
Faxed it over yesterday. Just wondering how long it might take to get a response. Also wondering if they don't match, will they let you know or just not respond at all?

My situation is exactly the same. I faxed a request on Jan. 5th, and I still have not heard from NW.

Thanks a lot!

This is my problem too. I had a ton of itins booked before all of these changes and have already logged in close to 15K EQM's. I don't want those to go to waste. I was thinking maybe hold out a bit longer, and see if I do a latter year status match I could get it through 2010. Enough time to qual for real on either AA or CO.

It's a shame, that BA doesn't match Status. However, two Business flights from Europe to US ( with a feeder to LHR ) is good enough for Silver and 3 returns are good enough for Gold. So I hope I will survive two returns without Status. fly every two weeks in the moment ( FB is loosing those miles with their ridiculous change in their program )

Any luck with Delta?
 

Has anyone had any luck getting a match from Delta.
I requested GM from DL to match my GE status on CO.
Faxed it over yesterday. Just wondering how long it might take to get a response. Also wondering if they don't match, will they let you know or just not respond at all?

UA is back doing status matches this year

I just got my approval from UA to match my NW status to Premier Executive (challenges and other things aside)

Congratulations! You have been awarded Premier Executive status in the Mileage Plus program! This will make your travel with us comfortable, simple and more rewarding than ever.

Your status will be effective for 90 days from January 29, 2009. To remain a Premier Executive member, you will need to fly 15,000 paid flight miles or 20 flight segments on qualifying flights* within that 90-day timeframe. Once you meet that threshold, a Premier Executive kit will be generated and mailed. Until you have a card, be sure to add your Mileage Plus number to your reservation in order to fully benefit from your elite status.

*Qualifying flights: Purchased flights on true United or United Express. Flight(s) must be a United flight number. Flights on other airlines do not qualify for this offer. Flights on United that have a partner's codeshare flight number do not qualify for this offer.

To maintain the status for all of 2010, you must earn 50,000 Elite Qualifying Miles (EQM) or 60 Elite Qualifying Segments (EQS) between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009. You earn EQM and EQS on qualifying purchased flights on United and United Express and the Star Alliance members. For a current list of Star Alliance member airlines, please visit www.united.com/staralliance or www.staralliance.com.

For details about the Mileage Plus elite program, visit www.united.com/elite. I hope you will travel with us often and experience the exceptional service and style reserved for our elite members around the world.

Thank you for choosing United, and enjoy your Premier Executive membership.

I just emailed them a copy of both my NW WP and UA MP statements.

Just an FYI in case you guys didn't know and couldn't find any signs of it from earlier posts :).

Ummm....what is the point of keeping this thread still open if we have The New Airline Status Match Master Thread? :confused:

I did my UA 1P to NW Gold match in early Dec. I got the OK by NW through 2010 within a week via email. The card came in less than a week after that.

rgds,
drew