Greetings!
I may have missed it in the thread, I saw that United doe status match up front then giving you some time to do a challenge (as posted above) how long is that time? I do not want to match and then have a lull in my travel.....

I am Plat with AA but new work place has a fly united policy... (grrr... should have been told that! Or asked... ) So it may be time to switch...

Air NZ have matched me to Gold. No big deal. Big thanks to them. All done by email. ^

Good to know, any special email you used to do it?

Nope. Used regular airnz at custhelp dot com

You shouldn't post email addresses in their correct format online, spam robots pick these up automatically resulting in a lot of junk email for airnz. I would change it to the format as per above.

Thank you for the information. Can you advise what status you used to justify the status match? from what program, and from what level?

+1 here

Got it from OK+ Platinum

... and how long the status is valid? Thanks!

Nice that there's still a Star Alliance member outside the US doing status matches, now that BD requires a flight with them and now that the Diamond Club program will be going away.

Status good for one year.

Hi all,

Firstly, if this question is considered off topic or it duplicates previous discussion, my apologies, and mods please feel free to remove it.

Whilst I can understand not giving out status matches like water at a marathon at all level, I do not 'get' the business logic of denying top tier members at any level.

I'm (nearly) a Companion pass holder at Southwest, the bulk of my balance being EQMs, yet if I went to UA (for example, and as my home airport is SAN it is a good example!) they would- AS A MATTER OF POLICY- refuse to status match.

An AA newbie gold member though- welcome to premier execdom.

Likewise, Southwest would laugh inn the face of any presidential plat on CO who asked for an A-list card. Sure, I can understand them not matching CP, as this could be abused like crazy for a year by a family flier who then never used WN again, but A-list membership? It costs nothing, and there are not enough top tier elites who would even consider WN to make this something that would upset 'earned' A-listers...

Likewise the hotels: I offered Hyatt the chance to take all my business from BW a year ago: "Sorry, we don't consider BW a competitor so no can do". "But I can prove I stay well over 100 nights/year EVERY YEAR!" "Sorry Mr. XXX, Computer says no."

Am I alone in failing to appreciate the business logic of wilfully throwing away the chance to poach top spenders from business rivals for comparatively little real initial outlay? It just seems like madness to me.

Paul.

Will CO match my DL status if CO matched me (from DL) years ago (I think it was 2001)? I have read that their rule is once in a lifetime and am wondering if perhaps that has been relaxed given the impending merger with UA. I migrated from CO to NW when they were quasi partners with reciprocal FF programs but now NW is DL and have not been happy.

Air New Zealand is status matching Czech Airlines? Seems like an odd mix!

Do they still do status matches? THX in advance.