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...