WOW thats minimum 250k flown miles a year plus maintaining AA!!
thanks a lotta miles

especially when u are going to Australia to re locate

Hi I am Platinum Elite (Sky Team Elite Plus) with Flying Blue (AF/KLM) and *G with BMI. Flying blue is a disaster - I was orginally a plat card with FD and BMI are in such a mess with their modularisation that I am thinking of moving to other carriers.

I wondered which oneworld carrier would comp me - I fly about 20 transatlantic (Biz Cabin) sectors a year plus connecting UK domestic and inter european sectors.

I'm reluctant to do challenges but want to get equivalent benefits to those I have now. Any ideas?

HI!

Today, I checked UA'S homepage. I found that my status is P-Exective. I was AA's Plat, I got it from the famous Challenge. Thank you for FT and FT members.

Reikkonen

Hi Stuart.

I have AA-PLT, and I am satisfied with AA and oneworld. To be honest, if I were you, I would do Challenge-GLD/PLT. Anyway, have you asked AA or other?

good luck!

Reikkonen

Has anyone ever got lucky getting status match from United twice...e.g. 2 yrs in a row?

Please mind AA (or BA) and the funny exclusion about BA (or AA) flights from London to the US.

Does anyone know how long US airways is taking to process Status Match?
Thanks!

Don't know if any would comp you, but you would satisfy a Gold challenge on AA on your first transatlantic (Biz Cabin) outbound leg, and satisfy a Platinum challenge on the return leg. LHR-JFK, for example, is 3452 miles. You would get 5178 q-points in each direction. You would get gold bonus (25%) on top of your class-of-service bonus on the outbound, and would get Platinum bonus (100%) on top of COS bonus on the return. With 20 transatlantic Biz sectors per year, you should top 100,000 q-points per year, giving you top-tier EXP (and OneWorld) status every year, even without your UK domestic and inter european travel. You could book the UK and european for AA miles or somebody else's miles, depending on fares and reciprocity percentages.

While this isn't strictly a comp, You would be mid-tier elite by the end of your first trip, and since that trip is in biz, you wouldn't miss any benefits except a few miles on the outbound leg. And since you don't mention any U.S. domestic flights, you wouldn't really miss any significant benefits during the first year as Platinum, while you are earning Executive Platinum (even if you did have a few U.S. domestic flights, you should have plenty of earned upgrades to use).

I'd recommend you pop on over to the AA forum and read up on challenges. The only catch is that you should plan on flying AA transatlantic.

Three to four work days seems to be the standard.

Thanks for this most informative thread. I faxed UAL a request for a status match early this week (based on CO Plat status) and when I logged into my account today, I am now listed as Premier Executive.

I had (earned) Premier status >5 years ago (before I moved to Houston), but now that I'm back in the SF area, I will probably be flying UA more.

Also, when I tried to fax number on Monday, it seemed to be very busy--either busy signals or no pickups. It did finally go through after several attempts!

Try again. I don't see any reason why US wouldn't comp you CP. If that doesn't work, try faxing HP for the match.

I'm reading through this thread to try to find my best option for getting a status match on UA.

I am US Air Gold, CO Gold, Delta Gold and EuroBonus (SK) Silver. Should I send copies of all those cards to UA to request status match to Prem Ex, or am I better off not sending the US Air and SK cards since those are *A partners?

I joined UA MP years ago but have never credited miles there, since I credit them primarily to SK (most of my travel is transatlantic SK). However, I have booked several of my transatlantic flights with UA tickets and always take connecting flights on TED (about 8 or 10 flights in the last year).

Should I explain this pattern to them or just send copies of the cards and ask for the match?

Susan

Do not use a * Alliance card to try to get a status match with UA or any other * Alliance carrier. Don't even mention it to UA. Show the DL card or DL and CO card.

End/beginning of month/workweek often equates with heavier volumes when it comes to faxes. Could explain that.

... just to let you know, that my asssiatant here just made the status match from our boss Gold BA card to his own Delta account - he copied boss's statement from the Internet and simply switched the name ;-) and then faxed it to Delta office ... 5 days and he got his own Gold status on Delta )

any comments? )