UA Status Match reply
 

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

i faxed mine in, but hadn't heard anything after about 4 biz days. b/c i had a flight the next day, i called MP HQ in S Dakota. explained my situation and the guy got me set up within the hour.

not sure how long the email takes, but i would call directly if you don't get anything by thursday.

alect, check out the separate hotel status match master thread for relevant info.

gobluetwo,

Do you have a number for the call center you called?

Thanks :)

^ thank you!

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

Does Emirates match status?

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?

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.-

Can anyone tell me if US currently enforces a "one time only" status match rule? I'm a CO platinum that was given a previous match to gold. I'd go for a UA match this time, but I don't like the "challenge" requirements.

Thanks for any suggestions.

got mine in 2 days

Why dont you status match with BMI. you can get into all the RC lounges in the states if u get their gold and it lasts a year. the UA only lasts 3 mths.

What exactly do I need to fax DL? I hit 1P in about two weeks, but will be doing the bulk of my flying the rest of the year (and a good chunk of next year) on DL. I'll hit FO, but honestly the chances of upgrades out of LAX are very slim as FO.

Can I just print off my summary from ua.bomb? Or, do I need to wait for my 1P card (not sure how long that'll take), or even worse, wait for them to mail me the statement? There seems to be a major lag with that.

Also, do they require a challenge similar to UA's?

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.

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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.