Does anyone have an answer for this? I'm a bit concerned that I have not yet gotten a response from DL.

thanks,
BHB

DL updates very early saturday morning and at the end of each month.

Bummer, as I'm flying tomorrow. Oh well...

New here.

I moved to NYC this year so my NW Gold status isn't helping me out that much, so I'm moving over to DL. I put the change over off until I had a free FC ticket to Europe, which I now have so now I'm ready to switch. I was shy of Gold for 2008, probably BC I have flown on US so much. My question is will DL match my 2007 NW GE status with 2008?

Any advice?

Hi:
Could I trouble you for the Delta fax # and what info you needed to provide them with. I'd also like to request a Delta match. Thanks a lot and have a happy holiday.
Best,
Keith

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.