ADVICE NEEDED for status match

Hi

In September, my partner and me will be moving from Geneva (Switzerland) to New York City.

We need to re-think our FF startegy !

I am Flying Blue (AF-KL) Platinum, BA Gold and will be LH Senator in a few weeks time (Silver for the moment). I have just lost my status with United.
I am flying in business class when over 6 hours of travel.

From NY, I will be flying to Africa and to Geneva. My LH status will be important for that (SAA, LH and Swiss).

What is new for me will be the internal US travel (including often Sarasota, FL, sometimes LA, Washington DC and Seatle) , a bit of South America and a bit of Asia.

I would like to have status with a US airline, mainly to acces the domestic upgrades.

Would CO be the best choice for me ? They are flying to Geneva too.

For the moment I am using my AF-KL card for upgrades on NW but would like to fly direct when possible.

My partner is Gold with BA and Silver with LH, and will be mainly flying to Geneva (economy !) and domestic incl.to Sarasota FL.


Any advice will be welcome,

Herve

Does anyone know if this is still the case. I need to move status over to Sky Team due to a change in my work travel to a destination where Sky Team is stronger. I am matching from 1K at United and although I know One Pass has its downsides, matching to Plat is an incentive to choose them.

Hello everyone,

I got great information here , even I was searching for somewhat this kind of information only....:.

No change to CO matching policy has been reported...

Does anyone have an updated fax for CO status match?

Looks like the number on page 1 is outdated.

Thanks

Have we reached the key date for NWA status match requests to be effective through 02/28/2010?

I thought the date to maximize matched status time was July 1 for pretty much everyone... i.e. match on July 1 '08 gets you 20 months, 07/08 - 02/10.

I believe that for AS it's 9/1.

As I understand it, Skymiles will be the surviving program, and Worldperks is going away.

So, I'm wondering if asking for an NW status match this fall might be a way to get a "free" status match. Presumably NW status will be grandfathered into Skymiles, but I'm thinking that thsi might not count as having burned the "one time" match for a possible future Delta match.

Of course there is no way to know for sure, and so it would be a gamble. Earlier this year I switched much of my flying to AS & UA. My CO status (earned mainly on BR & VS) has gotten my UGs on NW when flying NW was convenient - but presumably that arrangement will disappear with the merger, and it looks like CO will be out of ST soon as well.

So, I'm thinking that going for an NW match through 2/2010 later in the year may be worth the gamble - get a few MW/DL UGs next year, and hopefully be able to do a "New DL" match "for real" some time down the road of I ever wanted to switch from UA.

Thoughts ?

Tried search and nothing came up so apologies if this has been asked before but:

Will Delta match Qantas status?

If so, I'm likely a few weeks away from reaching Platinum (top tier) with Qantas, presumably it would be worth waiting for that before looking to get status matched...

Thanks

Delta may match Quantas Platinum, but it would only be to Delta Gold Medallion. Delta does not match to Platinum Medallion (outside of a very vew extremely high revenue cases).

Can anyone confirm this for CO? I will be moving to CO and would like to extend to 02/10 if possible. Thanks

CO is June 1
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showp...13&postcount=5

Thanks for the link. Just wanted to make sure that's still the case. If any mod reads this, the CO fax is no longer in service. I'm planning to just send my credentials to [email protected].

Hi!

I'm LH SEN / *G and like to match to a reasonable Oneworld airline. My main intention is to put the few miles I'll earn on OW to good use by redeeming an award ticket to IPC.
Qantas miles appear to not expire and might be a good match although I'm based in HAM/Germany.

Does Qantas match? Which other airline should I look into? LAN?

Thanks!