Originally Posted by mattm199 (Post 8465144)

Great thread! I have a quick question.
I'm QF Plat/ OW Emerald, but one of the companies I deal with has switched their travel bookings to *A.
I'm booked to travel from BNE to MCO in November with UA, and will have no status (*gasp*).
I think I will try emailing and see if I can get a Status Match with UA... but do I need to create a Milage Plus account first, or will they create one if they grant a match?

Originally Posted by Tulane41 (Post 8459035)

Hi all,

I just hoping to hear from anyone who's done a UA Status Match recently as to how long it took using the premiermatch email address.

I've been walking a fine line, as I'm flying a few UA flights this weekend, but also have a number of UA flights right around Christmas and New Years (right near the 90-day challenge window). I sent the email requesting a status match from CO Gold to UA 1P yesterday, with a copy of my CO statement showing gold.

I had seen some older posts showing that people heard back with a response within a few hours, or a day or so.

Has anyone used that email address recently? And, if so, what was your experience?

Thanks in advance!

Mike

Originally Posted by sfskier (Post 8322628)

I'm a 1K on United and requested a status match by Fax on Tuesday, today (less than 48 hours later) I am a Gold Medallion on Delta. Thanks to FT for all the info I needed!

Originally Posted by IsleOfMan (Post 8475662)

If your web account summary shows your status and recent flights then it should be enough. Make sure to do a test fax to another machine to make sure it's legible. It took them a week to notify me by email that my fax was not legible. I re-faxed mine with some lightening today so hopefully it will go through friday night / saturday morning.

Originally Posted by IsleOfMan (Post 8475917)

I scanned mine as a pdf and emailed it when they informed me the fax was ilegible. They replied that they are not allowed to open attachments and i would have to re-fax it or mail it in.

Originally Posted by Wheelie (Post 8463737)

This is a great thread with heaps of handy hints :)
as a possibility

would UA even consider a status match to Prem Exec?

we are US Gold, but already have 10k miles flown this calendar year credited to UA, with another 13000 already booked (all UA metal) for the rest of the year.

In the New Year we complete the bulk of a separate Star Alliance RTW

Surely if they match , and since we have never got anything from bein US Gold when we fly UA, this might be worth taking a shot at?
specially considering we all ready have 13k+ miles booked within a 90 day time frame

Originally Posted by Efrem (Post 8475825)

Slightly off-topic, but I can't help chuckling a bit about the amount of faxing being done for status matches. (I contributed three pages to the global total a few weeks ago.) It has so gone away nearly everywhere else. Just last week I had to send a paper document, electronically, to a lawyer - in my experience the last bastion of this ancient* technology. He said "Can you scan it, make a PDF and attach it to an e-mail?" Of course I could, and preferred to. (Yes, you can doctor PDFs - but you can also doctor the paper document that you fax, perhaps even more easily.) I wonder if, or rather when, this will become the preferred mode of communication for FF programs - for status matches (back to the thread topic!), missing mileage credit and elsewhere?

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*Today's bit of trivia: the fax machine, which most people associate with the late 20th century, was actually patented three years before the telephone (1873 versus 1876). It used telegraph wires, of course.

Originally Posted by anandrag (Post 8521080)

Does Emirates status match?

Originally Posted by anandrag (Post 8521080)

Does Emirates status match?

Originally Posted by gpan (Post 8521500)

Has anyone ever gotten matched to UA 1K at all, or only up to 1P. I have close to 170k miles on NW this year, but UA/*'s international coverage seems far better..

Originally Posted by mattm199 (Post 8465144)

Great thread! I have a quick question.
I'm QF Plat/ OW Emerald, but one of the companies I deal with has switched their travel bookings to *A.
I'm booked to travel from BNE to MCO in November with UA, and will have no status (*gasp*).
I think I will try emailing and see if I can get a Status Match with UA... but do I need to create a Milage Plus account first, or will they create one if they grant a match?

Originally Posted by Bonzz (Post 8417713)

Well, I did get matched through the mail...relatively painless, only took 4 business days (didn't quite get what I was hunting though, a match to plat, they only offered Gold)...Also came with what I felt was a somewhat unnecessarily sternly worded, "this match is a one-time offer, should you fail to accrue adequate mileage for elite status in the future it will not be granted."

Originally Posted by thecompdude (Post 8550614)

I mailed in my documents last week on Friday. And got an email yesterday confirming the status match. I am new 1K flier and got matched to Platinum (as requested)!
Is there a way to find out online, how long this status is valid till?

Originally Posted by SuperFlyBoy (Post 8550823)

Wow-1k to CO Plat? Congrats are in order, I would think...! ^

However, I wonder how it feels when they actually require like 250k miles to get a biz award to Rome from EWR! :eek:

You can do a *A award in biz for 90k or thereabouts...

Originally Posted by thecompdude (Post 8551976)

Frankly, I dont think, I will be a regular on CO. So I am not that worried about redeeming miles.
I just wanted Plat status, because I bought a CO ticket for SEA-EWR-BOM using my TY points. If I like the flight, I might continue to use the route for my 2 trips to India every year.

Originally Posted by SuperFlyBoy (Post 8552263)

Since you were able to get Plat on CO, maybe you can detail or summarize what you did, so that others can receive guidance? (myself included, if I decide to go for the match and try out some CO flights.. ;) )

Originally Posted by thecompdude (Post 8552358)

Same thing as mentioned in the first post (except that the mailing address has changed).

Include the following information -
1) Covering Letter - Most important! Ensure you include information about the reason, why they should give you a status match. Tell them about your plans to use Continental as your primary airline and your need to travel to cities, which are CO hubs (so that you can talk about direct flights, etc.)
Also include information like Name, Address, Phone #, OnePass #, Email address, etc.
2) A copy of your current elite status card.
3) A copy of your latest elite statement.



Mail To:
Continental Airlines
Attn: One Pass Elite Match Program
P O Box 4757
Houston, TX 77210

Originally Posted by bearteacher (Post 8575705)

I would like to follow thecompdude's step to request the status match from my UA 1K to CO Plat.

Could thecompdude tell me when your new CO valid till?

I am an old 1K and this status will be expired on next Feb and I will be only 1P after that. My planning CO flights will be from NRT to BOS via IAH on 'next April'. Is it possible to get CO Plat match till the end of next April from this situation?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by skywalkerLAX (Post 8469676)

Are you sure about your choice ? It sounds like BD is a better programm for you, at least for collecting and cashing in the miles ! *G benefits are the same anyways...

Seb.-

Originally Posted by Traveloguy (Post 8585413)

Not necessarily true.

For example, my partner flys regularly in European J transiting either MUC, FRA or ZRH.

Let's use the following example (which I suspect many Euro flyers out there do): If you took 8 return flights credited in to LH that would net 100,000 including the SEN status bonus which also counts towards elite or status miles, i.e. that is

10,000 (2,500 miles per sector) x 8 x 1.25 (25 % status bonus) = 100,000

This would give you SEN status for 2 years and 100,000 miles to burn.


On BD, 8 flights on LH/LX would net you 38,400 which would also give you BD*G. This would give you 48,000 destination miles to burn on flights.

With this in mind, which programme would you pick? Yes, cash and miles would be an option to make up the short fall, but at least on LH you would not have to hand over the cash in the first place just to get the premium seat on your redemption.

The only place where BD is better is on long haul F or J.

Things of course change when you get above the 55K mark, but the above example flyer would not have reached this milestone and it would not be for another 3 return flights via FRA, MUC or ZRH that the 55K bonus would start to kick in.

Food for thought when picking a *A programme.

:)

Originally Posted by TWA Guy (Post 8609825)

A client is trying for a UA status match and has tried to fax (605) 341-6140 3 times and the number does not work. Has the number changed? Thanks!

Originally Posted by gobluetwo (Post 8610087)

try this one: 605-343-4104

Originally Posted by IsleOfMan (Post 8475917)

I scanned mine as a pdf and emailed it when they informed me the fax was ilegible. They replied that they are not allowed to open attachments and i would have to re-fax it or mail it in.

Originally Posted by uclano1 (Post 8581034)

I've been faxing to get US Airways to match my CO Gold Elite status for the last 2 weeks and still no response. Has anyone been able to match or has the fax number changed? Thanks!