United Status Match Update
 

"The timeframe for status matches is 90 days for December 31, 2007, whichever comes first. At this time there is less than 90 days left in the year so the deadline is December 31, 2007. Please be advised no status match request will be processed after December 1, 2007." from a United agent

So I guess it looks like I won't be status matching until January of next year...this really sucks as I have already booked two rt's on united that will be shy by less than a 1000 miles. Oh well....

Success!
 

I just completed a status match on CO. I am GP on US, and they matched me. I have one flight left on US this year (that will put me at SP for 2008). Most of my trips are PHL-IAH (saving $$ over EWR-IAH). I have a trip to TLV in April, and looks like I'll be flying *A carriers (US and LX). A little over $1000 RT vs. CO at $5000 RT (they are sold out of Y seats on the return). During Passover, so I can understand why.

Comped to United Premier Executive from CO OnePass Elite Platinum. Too bad they stopped comping to 1K :(

Have one and a half months to fly 12,500 miles which is no difficult feat for me lol

Stopped? It's never been UA's policy to comp to 1K. It has - and still - happens occasionally, but not really through the regular comp processed discussed in this thread.

Status match from US Airways
 

Does anyone know would US Airways impose any challenges til the end of this year so the comp status can remained valid til 2009? (I know UA has a 12,500 mile travel requirement by end of this calendar year otherwise the comp status expires after Dec 2007)

I am a CO Platinum going to lowly Silver next year. I would like to match somewhere, preferably Star Alliance. My travel next year will be back-end loaded so challenges will not work. I called USAir and they suggested I buy the trial preferred status. United seems to only be doing challenges. Am I out of options? It seems crazy that all three of the sky team airlines are still matching, but no one else does.... Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Try BD - if you fly mostly C or F tickets, it's the one to get! ^

I asked this a while back in the thread and didn't get much of an answer. Is there ANY way I can move from CO's program to NW? I really want to change but don't want to start over from mile 0. I'm a platinum for the rest of this year. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks

Don't get your hopes up. The consensus is that NW/DL/CO do
not offer status match/challenge for each others' program. Seems
you certainly can move, but will have to start from scratch.

So you have to go through another program as middleman -- eg CO -> UA -> NW. Of course your CO status will probably comp to mid-tier somewhere else and then mid-tier with NW so you won't wind up a NW Plat but it's better than nothin'.

Ua Status Match/challenge
 

Someone in this thread mentioned that UA would not do
any more challenges after Dec 1, 2007. Does that mean
-no more challenges at all- or just -call back after Jan 1,
2008-. I was in a similar position, as they offered me a
challenge to fly a certain amount of miles before Dec 31.
I felt I am overextended this year, don't want to get caught
up in holiday travel, but am certainly up to it after Jan 1.
Can someone clarify this point for me please?

latest info on BMI match?
 

I am contemplating a move to BMI, after reading the posts it looks like my growing *A flying habits make this a good place to be with 60k+ in C travel. In addition to *Gold with UA, I am also a NW Plt and AS MVP Gold. Any sense of my chances of a status match with BMI with any/all of these these programs? I have a SE Asia address if that makes any difference...
I have a 24k circle pacific fare coming up in a month that I wouldn't mind dumping in to get going. Also, does anyone have the Fax# for requesting a match?

They'll match your NW Plat to bmi Gold. Send them your AS MVP Gold as well, for good measure. Don't mention UA status. Just send your stuff to [email protected] (attach screen shots or pdf scans of your status). In a few days you'll be Gold.

Btw bmi no longer limits membership in Diamond Club to residents of a few countries. Anyone can join.

I got a status match to bmi Gold as a Delta PM less than a month ago. It took only about 5 days, and without any problems. One of the things you may miss (in the beginning only) is the 100% bonus RDMs on UA versus 25% bonus RDMs on bmi (35% if flying on bmi metal). But given that you will most likely fly 60,000 miles in Business, it will only take you 27,500 miles of C class flying (i.e 55,000 status miles) on most star airlines to reach the threshold that would convert all your status miles to destination miles (RDMs)... beyond that point, you will be racking miles pretty fast!! One of the great advantages of this program... it greatly rewards premium class flying . Good Luck!

Thanks for the advice on BMI, I really appreciate the pointers. I wont miss the UA bonus, because I almost never fly their metal, there are many better *A products over here. I finally realized UA's 25% COS service bonus for OZ and NZ flights in C isn't a good utilization of those pricey fares. Happy to "start again" for BMI, only wish I had thought about it 12 months ago... I'd be rolling in the miles.