Transfer status United to American?
 

Hello,

My company has decided to use American Airlines as its preferred carrier - for a lot of reasons. I have Premier Exec status on United. Is there a way to transfer status to American so I can still have privileges for the remainder of 2004? If anyone knows, please advise. Thanks!

Welcome to Flyertalk, caryssa!

You might want to check out The Status Match Master Thread. You might also check out the American Airlines forum.

Regards,
Gary

[This message has been edited by gleff (edited Mar 15, 2004).]

I dropped from AA Plat to Gold this year and called AA Customer Service a few times asking if they would bump me back up to Plat based on my UA PremEx status. I was told no each of the 3 times I called. I was told that "we dont do that anymore." I suppose that I will keep calling.

Many times, part of the deal when your company changes preferred carriers is a status match for employees who are affected by the change. This all depends on the size of you company, but I've seen it happen several times when a company changes over. All frequent travelers receive a status match, but usually only as high as the second level from top ... Platinum on AA or Premier Executive on UA. Ask your corporate travel department.


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sftrvlr

[This message has been edited by sftrvlr (edited Mar 16, 2004).]

There's been a rather lengthy discussion on the AA board that the only UA flyers that might get comped in now would need to be high revenue. The days of rotuine comping, like when I got in with a nice letter, may be over. Hopefully your corporate agent will have some success.

Per an AA rep, they don't match w/United anymore b/c of United's potential bankruptcy.

Check with your corporate travel department. My company made the shift this year also and all I had to do was provide corporate travel with a copy of my UA miles summary, account number, and status. AA, within about 4 weeks, notified me of the match.