Does anyone know of any oneworld carrier who will do a status match?

Cheers.

AA - Gold/Plat challenge
LA - status match available, but you rarely get a response for your inquiries (I am one of those waiting for the reply for three weeks now).

Other airlines, I believe do not have status match.

You might want to do a search for the terms "status match" in the forum for the particular airline you are interested in. For example, see these threads:
CX
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/catha...-match-cx.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/catha...atch-help.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/catha...tus-match.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/catha...tus-match.html
BA
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...t=match+status
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...tus-match.html
QF
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qanta...-match-qf.html
JL
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/jal-m...t-try-too.html
LA
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...tus-match.html

You may also want to have a look at the status match master thread contained in the milesbuzz forum.

Thanks Jerry... should have done that.. Unfortunately when you just end up being so pissed off with KLM, you cannot think straight!!

No problem, good luck!

Does anyone know anything about
which Oneworld Airlines usually offers
status match for *Gold and/or Skyteam E+?

Check out this thread - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...er-thread.html

LAN will match to mid-tier, AA will offer your a challenge, BA, JAL and Cathay don't, digging through the thread may reveal something about the others but I'd be surprised if Qantas did.

Thanks!
I've just sent an email to LAN...

See this thread.

LAN does status match and after about one month of patience, I was given Comodoro (OW Emerald) status from my UA 1K status. I don't think this came easy as I demonstrated that I was giving LAN steady future business via my current PNRs that I had with LAN and other promising business opportunities. So, when you draft a letter, please make sure to include at least the last six months of your current FF activity, a carefully drafted letter that shows evidence for your future business with LAN, and (if you have these) any booked itineraries that you currently have with LAN.

Now, I have flown two long haul/mid-long haul segments (SYD-SCL and SCL-LIM) and the treatment has been very good (despite some minor hick ups in SYD during check-in). I was given guaranteed seat blocking on my SYD-SCL and gate agents both in SYD and AKL (short transit stop) personally told me at the time of boarding (in AKL at the time of deplaning during transit) that they have blocked the seat (not to mention small business class cabin) for me! ^

Would any OW airlines status match our Star Alliance Gold cards? I have Gold from Air Canada, my wife from Asiana. The OW equivalent seems to be sapphire status

We are a retired couple. We usually pay economy fares. We have taken 3 Star RTWs (the shortest - 26,000 miles) over the past few years plus many trips YYZ-LHR and to Ireland.

We are interested in lounge access/priority checkin and baggage, primarily, and retaining status in future years.

I expect we would wait to late 2009 to join the programme, and do a OW RTW then. But I would prefer to know if we could get lounge access/priority checkin if we buy an economy fare before doing the detailed planning.

If so, how do I go about it?

You might want to take a look at the The New Airline Status Match Master Thread in the MilesBuzz forum.

Is there any OW FF program offering elite status matches
for Star Alliance Gold and/or Skyteam elite plus members?
Cathay Pacific only offered silver level for me, which is not
equal to my StarG and STE+ benefits...