Okay, now I'm really miffed. *5 months* to deliver my Gold card from what should have been a Plat match! I hope you get the best from it in the two years you have.

I think I would have struggled to requalify with 200,000 miles needed for Plat and punitive expiry of those points.

I finally received my Gold card yesterday, about a week after my blue card first arrived - my other card is Gold (no plat on BD!) so no platinum match possibility. The card is valid until 02/2012, so just over a year of validity which makes sense, so if doing the status match it may be worth doing in Feb 2011 to see if you get until 2013. The actual letter was sent around 2 weeks after my flight - just for some reason it then took almost 3 weeks to arrive in the UK from Hungary. The online status was probably done around the same time, 2 weeks later.

I'm happy anyway as gives me the chance to switch my domestic UK flights to BA, if I choose, whilst still getting lounge access.

PS: If it matters my flight was a J one-way at the start of November to BUD.

If I understand correctly, Duna Club membership is on a calendar year basis. When you reach (or are matched to) a higher level, the status is granted for the remainder of the current year and all of the following year. As a courtesy, the cards have an additional two months of validity to prevent inconvenience in the case of late-in-the-year requalification, delay of new cards in the post, etc. So, I would expect that any match after 1 January 2011 would yield a card valid until the end of February 2013. (At least, that's my plan. :) )

cheers,

Henry

I am due to take a one-way flight on Wednesday in order to take advantage of this offer (and then returning to LHR on a redemption ticket), however when I try to load the status match offer page it appears to have been pulled?!

http://www.malev.com/offers/fly-at-a-higher-level

Where do you think I stand? Is there any point me travelling now or will they still honour the status match?

Looks like it's back on their site.

Yes I can confirm I took the flight and they matched status no problem after I emailed the boarding pass to them.

It is also advertised on page 83 of the Malev inflight magazine for January 2011.

I did the routing FRA - BUD - OTP (both booking clas S) and OTP - BUD - FRA (both booking class V) last weekend, send them a mail on Monday with the copy of the first boarding pass and a copy of my M&M Senator card. On Wednesday my Duna Club profile showed me that I'm a gold member now.

Yesterday I got following message:
Now I am waiting for my two new cards :D (MA basic and gold)

Have you got the card(s) yet?

I'm in a very similar situation. I took the qualifying flight(s) over the weekend (Sat. to BUD and Sun. back home). On Monday I e-mailed them the e-tix, BPs and copy of present Gold card. On Tuesday I got a reply that the information had been forwarded to the appropriate department. On Wednesday I see that my online account has been updated to Gold. :)

cheers,

Henry

No I was matched on 7th Jan but no cards yet. My account is registered in the Netherlands so Im guessing we should have the cards within a week. I think I will give it a few more days then send a short email to chase up.

EDIT: Arrived today (11th Feb) so just over 1 month from match request. Valid until Feb 2013.

I used this weekend to get this match done (cheaper than buying a Quantas Club).

I send an e-mail to Malev on Sunday afternoon with a copy of the e-ticket, boarding passes and LH card as required by the promotion T&C. Late in the evening the miles showed on my Duna Club account and this morning my status changed to Gold.

Now that was a fast match, now let's hope that the card actualy shows up sooner than other people in this thread report.

Best of luck sven60035. It would be a shame if you had to credit your future flights to Duna Club just so you could get lounge access.

That is quite interesting!

Read the thread but didn't find an answer: My DH is still UA Premier. Will Malev match that? What would that equal to?
Thanks.

What does Gold get you? From what I seen not even an upgrade to the front of the MALEV flights.

http://www.malev.com/dunaclub/benefi...flyer-benefits

I would've thought the most obvious benefit for US-Based flyers would be domestic lounge access?

MA Gold/OW Sapphire...