From Delta:

"While we reserve the right of granting Platinum Medallion status only to
those members who achieve the status within our program guidelines, we
will consider a one time offer of Silver or Gold Medallion levels to
members who meet the requirements of other airline programs. If you are
interested in participating and to determine if you meet the criteria
for this one time offer, additional information is needed. Please submit
a legible photocopy of your Elite card showing the current status held
at this time in the airline program you use most frequently. Current
Delta SkyMiles Medallion members are not eligible to participate.

If you are already a SkyMiles member please provide your account number.
If not, please include your address and phone number.

Delta Air Lines, Dept. 654
SkyMiles Service Center
P.O. Box 20532
Atlanta, GA. 30320-2532

If you are sending your request via courier delivery, please use the
following address:

Delta SkyMiles Service Center
Department 654
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Atlanta, GA 30320

Fax - 404-773-1945 - General members"

Switching to LH or LX from UA
 

Hello! After lurking here for many years, I have finally decided to ask my first question in the forum.

I am working in Switzerland and fly fairly frequently between GVA and NYC. I am in UA's PE but most of my flights are on Swiss, which are often in business class (fare class C). I think I flew about 70k miles on Swiss between GVA and JFK and another 24k or so on UA inside the US.

The problem is, as far as I can tell (UA is not very good at telling you how many EQ miles you have earned), it seems as if UA is not giving any kind of EQM bonus for the LX flights. Once my flight was re-routed because of weather and I went on LH and got an EQM bonus, a pretty hefty one.

So, that brings me to my questions. Should I switch programs? To LX or LH? Would either of these airlines match status? Thank you for any insights you may have!

SUCCESS!

Recently Moved to London
 

Recently moved to London. I am United 1K and maybe close to GS this year. Was thinking I might try to status match for BA, but I hear they don't do that very often.

Any advice on which airline I should switch to (if any?). I will have a lot of travel to the continent (NL, DE, FR), maybe 8 long trips to the US next year (Mostly west coast, SEA) and probably half that for asia + 2-3 eastern europe (Kiev and Moscow).

Recently Moved to London
 

bah. dupe.

Does anybody know any way around this? I want Continental to match my Delta platinum status and they have refused. They offered to match my other airline status, to give me gold on Continental, but will not match Delta, which would give me platinum. Has anybody had success getting Delta status matched on Continental, and if so, how did you do it?

You'll need to go through another program... perhaps get AA to match your DL, then get Continental to match your AA. AA will likely match DL Plat to AA Plat. CO may only match AA Plat to CO Gold (because AA Plat isn't their top tier, Executive Platinum is), but this is the only way to get around it.

AFAIK AA doesn't do matches, but rather only challenges, so that may be a problem. Agree though, that will only net CO Gold, even if it did work.

Okay, thank you... they're already willing to give me Gold, but I wanted Platinum. I'm probably just being a baby and should take the Gold. I was hoping having multiple airline status at Platinum would make a difference in the match.

Upgrades are a survival technique! Do you guys get upgraded a lot with CO gold?

AA was just the example I used saying he'd have to go through another program. Most programs will not match to their top tier. I matched from AA Plat to DL and Gold was as high as they would match (I had requested a match to Platinum). Their corespondance read as if Gold is as high as they would ever match.

After a status match, I am 1 for 5 this year on CO. The one being a 5:30 AM PHL-IAH flight. I am taking the same flight this coming Saturday, and have not received the u/g at the 3 day window. Traveling on an O fare. BTW, all my travel is PHL-IAH-PHL.:td:

I haven't updated my signature yet.

Hi !

LH & LX are in the same programm called Miles & More aka "Miles&Less" :D

If you fly frequently on LX/LH it would certainly make sense to switch since the treatment is better as a M&M elite. Also if you fly Business Class your miles count double for status and bonus miles !

There is nothing like a status match but you reach Frequent Traveller/FTL/*S from 35K and Senator/SEN/*G with 100K miles.

As soon as 2008 starts I would credit to M&M and use your UA *G card for lounge access and the affiliated benefits.

Cheers,

Im looking for this information as well. The opening post has contact information for just about everyone but American. Does anyone know if they still status match?

Based on what I have heard they almost exclusively offer challenges, although I would LOVE to be proven wrong.

Thank you very much! After reading all the details on the various web sites, I agree with your assessment. I registered with M&M today...

Best

CT

Not really proving you wrong, but AA does corporate status matches to Plat/Gold. :)

Yep, know that for sure, that falls into my "almost exclusively" category.:D Unfortunately would love to be proven wrong outside of corporate matches.:o

AA used to do matches only against UA status but that's very old data and I haven't seen any discussion of it in a few years.

If we're talking old, AA matched my Delta status, Platinum for Gold Medallion - but that was also very old data, and my travel agent's sales rep may have had something to do with it. (The term "travel agent" suggests how old the data point is.) Wouldn't happen today.

The long hold mantra is that airlines do not normally encourage intra-alliance "defections". However some posters on this thread seem to have succeeded, while others say it cannot be done. Hence does anyone have any recent experiences of moving to UA from a *A member, other than US?

I flew about 60k miles on UA in 2007 (posting to BD&OZ) and will do about the same in 2008. The trips are all for leisure, so will be in the cheapest seats I can get. I could of course earn 1P the hard way, but I wouldn't get the E+ access or the 100% RDM bonus while I did it(which would be enough for an extra Saver award to the US) .

As a low rev passenger, do you think I stand a chance of being offered the challenge? Of course, I could just wait until 2nd Jan and then email UA to find out.......

hi all you are all the best in info/guidance

here is my question.

I am L/T gold on AA and silver with Hgilton and Marriott.

how do I get higher status (oh, yeah, more flying and hotel stays, I know that) but hwat ese?


Mark

Virgin Atlantic Status Match
 

I have Virgin Atlantic Silver Status (Mid-Tier) and wanted to know if any of the major US airlines will match my status to any mid-tier. I don't have the strength to search thru 87 pages...

Which SkyTeam Airline is easiest to get Status Match?
 

Compared to most folks here I am "not worthy", but I did fly about 35segments (but split on too many airlines) in one 12 month period spanning 2006/07 so I'm not an "infrequent flyer" either.

Here's the deal -- In 2007 I flew:

US - ~5000 miles and got Silver based on a Challenge which expires Feb 08.
CO - ~9500 miles
NW - ~500 miles

The catch is that all of that occured between Feb and June 07. I want to "milk the elite" for a little while longer by getting a Status Match, probably to a SkyTeam partner. I expect to fly about 15,000-20,000 miles again this year.

Knowing the usage patterns shown above, who is more likely to give me a status match, NW or CO (or should I be considering something else)? Since I don't fly enough to earn enough free tickets to take the entire family on vacation, my goals are less related to bonus mileage and more related to access to faster check in, upgrades, exit rows, etc. on my business trips.

As a side note, I fly from IND which is a focus city for NW, but I've enjoyed past experiences on CO better than NW (would I have a better experience on NW if I were elite?).

The biggest thing you have to watch with CO is deeply discounted fares only count 50% EQM and no EQM segments. I overlooked this twice in 2007 which then necessitated MR in December for $225, although my late booking Dec 06/Jan07 to LAS for $700+ had me scratching my head on that one (didn't mind the fare because I had $500 bump voucher). It all depends upon your travel patterns. I book cheap because it's my nickel. If you think you are going to be close and you book cheap, stick with NW. Once you get elite you can then be in good shape if/when you need to fly CO.

United Elite Challenge
 

Hey everyone... I've tried skimming through the past 87 pages of posts as best as I can; but I have a question that I did not see asked. I am currently Silver on both US (Expiring 02/2008), and DL (Expiring 02/2009). I am based in DC; so the majority of my flights are on UA (out of Dulles) and US (out of DCA). I was on a project last year that required me to use the Delta Shuttle; which is why I am losing my US status (Only had 15K EQM) and got Delta instead (30K MQM).

I would really like to get status on United this year; and I am now on a project that will require me to fly LAX-->IAD a handful of times over the next few months. I am hesitant to send in my DL Silver card, as I would really like to get matched to 1P and not 2P. What is the best way to go about the status match / elite challenge?? Will United do a challenge without sending in a card? Or do I have to send in my DL Silver to even be considered for a match?

Thanks for the advice!

Welcome to FlyerTalk, roder! Unfortunately you can only be matched to the level that you have with a different carrier, in this case Premier with United. To be matched to Premier Exec you would need mid tier status with another carrier.

For a recent challenge I did not have to mail in the physical card.
Usually I understand a fax with a legible copy of the card suffices.
Only one earlier post refers to an actual mailing since the card
could not be phtocopied. Even if you would have to mail it in
there is no cause to worry since the new cards are issued
again in Feb/Mar. So you would have a replacement pretty quick.
Due to some sort of urgency I was able to do it via E-mail, but I
think I was a special case. In any case contact UA and they
will give you instructions how to proceed. Good luck.

OK, I'm taking a flier [sic] on this one, but I am 1K with UA, and would like to travel on BA. Any chance of a status match with BA for the BOS-LHR runs I have to do?

Hey guys I need some help on selecting which airline should I match my status to. I'm currently *silver (should go until Feb 09) with UA based in PHL. Last year I made my 2P status based on flying mostly US/UA metals.

This year, I predict my flying pattern to be as follow:
PHL-SEA/SFO/SBA
PHL-MEX
PHL-IND or some other midwestern places

There should be a 1 week of Eurotrip in there somewhere, and maybe Israel at the end of the year, depending on financial situation. PHL-IND and a part of the Eurotrip may be sponsored by my company, if I can find a conference to go to in Europe.

I realize that PHL is a *A hub and it'd make more sense to stick with *A, but now I have noticed that skyteam (DL, NW) are pushing out cheap fares on PHL. Since I travel mostly with my own money, I would like to save some while I'm at it. Any advice as to what I should do? Thanks in advance!

EVA Apparently Offers a Limited Silver Match:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=755182

Folks,
a quick review of this thread shows some fairly old references to Air Canada's lack of "Status Matching". Does anybody have any recent experience in success with Aeroplan and how did you achieve it?. I'm currently Platinum (i.e OneWorld Emerald) with Qantas and looking to do a whole lot of Canadian travel this year. Hopefully to Super-elite, as opposed to Elite

I tried to email my DL Dec statement as a .pdf showing PM (made it on Xmas day!) to the UA status match email address. I got this reply:
They didn't ask for my DL card, or even a copy of it, just the statement. But they seem to prefer fax due to "security issues." I suppose I could have converted it to .jpg and embedded it in an email instead of attaching it, but I just went ahead and faxed it.

Update UA and Us Airways status match
 

Have AA Platinum. Trying to match status with US and Us Airways:

UA, fax number changed to 605-343-4104; and (NEW CONDITION!!!) before they give you the mid-tier status, you will have to earn 15,000 miles on United (or Ted) in 90 days.

Us Airways, the old woman (by her voice) abruptly interrupted me and said "we do not match from one airline to another; you have to earn your status by flying with Us Airways." (sounds very harsh)

So- it's not easy to be a flyer now...

Thank you for contacting US Airways.

I apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced.

We would like to thank you for your interest in US Airways. As of June
15, 2007, we no longer offer matches to other airlines' preferred
status.

We appreciate your continued patronage of US Airways.

Antwayne White
Dividend Miles Service Center

Star Alliance
 

Are there any Star Alliance carriers left (apart from BMI) who will match status?

As late as a few months ago, anyone could buy elite status from US. They were offering to sell Gold for $400 and Platinum for $600. Shows you how little they think their product is worth... and they're right! Not sure if that's still available but you may want to call.

Rejected every time I tried, so I rarely fly them. If you're travelling within Canada, you don't have much choice.

But if you're flying transborder, there are lots of domestic options to Canada. Plus even if you get Elite/SuperElite status, what's the point? Their upgrade policy sucks and their fares are generally higher than AA.

I'm not going to pay $1,500 RT Y on a once a day AC nonstop SFO-YUL with no upgrade (they don't honor UA 1P) when I can pay $400-$500 RT on AA SFO-DFW/ORD-YUL with an upgrade.

I would stick with oneworld and QF/AA.

When did you contact them and when did you receive a response? I've sent 2 faxes to that number since the beginning of this year, and haven't heard anything back...:mad: Thanks!

I called yesterday. Maybe that means they will not reply before we earn that 15000 miles...

what can we say... poor US Airways