QR Status Match - Offer Ends 22nd May
May 21, 2020, 12:36 am
#31
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: London
Posts: 319
For me, the QR system is worth it for the first year of the status match (if they give it) given the 50% reduction in Qpoints required to retain OW Emerald. Coupled with the fact you get tier bonus for QR flights posted to QR but not BAEC. After the first year I will probably return to BAEC depending on if anything has changed post-covid.
I am also Anticipating the increased likelihood of QR giving status extension, and BA failing to do so, although this doesn’t affect calculations.
May 21, 2020, 12:55 am
#32
Moderator: Qatar Airways
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: LHR/NCE/MIA
Programs: BAEC GfL & GGL, SQ Gold, Amex Centurion, Mucci des Chevaliers des Bons Mots et Qui Savent Moucher
Posts: 8,944
Worth bearing in mind that QR Platinum members, in J, can access the Al Safwa for free.
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May 21, 2020, 1:48 am
#33
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Phuket
Programs: SQ *Gold, BA, QR, EY, Hilton Diamond, IHG Plat, Marriott Gold, Amex Plat
Posts: 5,264
Last edited by NoY; May 21, 2020 at 8:03 pm Reason: typo correction
May 21, 2020, 8:14 pm
#34
Join Date: Jul 2017
Posts: 235
They extended the status match for 2 days, but now only for Etihad, Emirates and Turkish.
I see they are now also saying applicants will hear back within 20 days, pretty sure it said 10 before...so it could be a while until we hear anything.
I see they are now also saying applicants will hear back within 20 days, pretty sure it said 10 before...so it could be a while until we hear anything.
May 21, 2020, 9:12 pm
#35
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 3,837
It used to be 10. Imagine how many VA status matches they received lol.
May 23, 2020, 2:14 pm
#38
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Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: BHD/DUB/PTY
Programs: BA Silver / EI Silver
Posts: 419
May 23, 2020, 3:08 pm
#40
Join Date: Aug 2017
Posts: 844
QR can make dummy res and put your given FF no in....from that they can tell if you have status.
May 23, 2020, 3:25 pm
#42
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May 23, 2020, 3:27 pm
#43
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 3,837
May 24, 2020, 7:18 am
#44
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Cape Town
Programs: BA Exec Gold , Qatar Priviledge Club Plat
Posts: 1,584
QR would most likely just send you a rejection email and leave it there, QR isn't calling up airlines and say, hey would you mind if you just check to see if one of your potential high value pax is really got this status as they wanna switch to us. There would also be issues surrounding data protection for most people contacting QR if they were feeding information to other source to confirm things. Naturally if it was a oneworld airline/other airline partner FFP, then I'm sure QR could check this, Emirates haha no.
There are two types of people who could commit this type of fraud ( well the majority), someone who has status and has been able to photoshop everything to show a higher tier, but most tiers have different colour schemes so it would be hard to match it. Then there are those who get screenshots from friends and then photoshop it themselves, but this would take someone you know and has a status within one of the select airlines that QR are willing to accept. You would have to have a good grip of photoshop to be able to make it even barely looking genuine, which most people couldn't achieve or bother to even attempt.
You will also find most airlines do not post currently anything online in the form of images that could be photoshopped to someones benefit, everything that can be found online is part of the old design or colour scheme..... or a current image design that is posted in such a way that photoshop would just be impossible to produce something believable.
I am sure there will be some great examples of fake documents submitted to QR that will get status, but i am sure that QR will reject quite a few that they believe are fake. I think one of the reasons why we haven't seen any replies yet is because with the more people that submit documents the more of an idea they get of what is legit and what is not. Same time i know at least here, flyertalk members i say are most def in the high risk category for thinking about doing fakes as most non-flyertalk folks wouldn't even know this campaign is running. Having said that if someone did get status through fake documents it could level itself out as at least while high risk, some flyertalk members could bring a lot of business that they probably wouldn't if brought if they did not receive status.
It would be interested to know if anyone did submit anything fake and if they got status, "no judgement", would be an interesting data point. I also think that with QR changing the T&C's all the time with this status match, it just takes one QR staff member to reject one of the first email received as it does not meet the current T&C'S. I would hate to be arrested upon arrival in Doha for fraud!
There are two types of people who could commit this type of fraud ( well the majority), someone who has status and has been able to photoshop everything to show a higher tier, but most tiers have different colour schemes so it would be hard to match it. Then there are those who get screenshots from friends and then photoshop it themselves, but this would take someone you know and has a status within one of the select airlines that QR are willing to accept. You would have to have a good grip of photoshop to be able to make it even barely looking genuine, which most people couldn't achieve or bother to even attempt.
You will also find most airlines do not post currently anything online in the form of images that could be photoshopped to someones benefit, everything that can be found online is part of the old design or colour scheme..... or a current image design that is posted in such a way that photoshop would just be impossible to produce something believable.
I am sure there will be some great examples of fake documents submitted to QR that will get status, but i am sure that QR will reject quite a few that they believe are fake. I think one of the reasons why we haven't seen any replies yet is because with the more people that submit documents the more of an idea they get of what is legit and what is not. Same time i know at least here, flyertalk members i say are most def in the high risk category for thinking about doing fakes as most non-flyertalk folks wouldn't even know this campaign is running. Having said that if someone did get status through fake documents it could level itself out as at least while high risk, some flyertalk members could bring a lot of business that they probably wouldn't if brought if they did not receive status.
It would be interested to know if anyone did submit anything fake and if they got status, "no judgement", would be an interesting data point. I also think that with QR changing the T&C's all the time with this status match, it just takes one QR staff member to reject one of the first email received as it does not meet the current T&C'S. I would hate to be arrested upon arrival in Doha for fraud!
