Can I Status Match from UA to a partner Star Alliance Carrier?
Dec 24, 2018, 2:18 pm
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Can I Status Match from UA to a partner Star Alliance Carrier?
I am currently United Gold, but I am losing it in January. Before I lose it, is there a Star Alliance carrier that I can status match to? It is most convenient for me to fly United or American, so I would love to status match to a Star Alliance or One World Carrier. I know about the AA Status challenge, but I was wondering if there is an easier status match to a Star Alliance carrier.
Dec 24, 2018, 2:22 pm
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If you were a HVF, you might have a chance but very doubtful a Gold would get anywhere.
AC to UA match?
Dec 24, 2018, 2:40 pm
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I am currently United Gold, but I am losing it in January. Before I lose it, is there a Star Alliance carrier that I can status match to? It is most convenient for me to fly United or American, so I would love to status match to a Star Alliance or One World Carrier. I know about the AA Status challenge, but I was wondering if there is an easier status match to a Star Alliance carrier.
Dec 24, 2018, 11:45 pm
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I'm not sure what you mean by that. Some airlines, Iike Alaska, do a straight match solely based on proof of your current status. It has nothing to do with being able to hold that status into the future.
Dec 25, 2018, 12:29 am
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I don't think you'd have to be worried about being denied a status match because your status is expiring soon.
That being said, off the top of my head, Turkish and Air Canada offer status matches and challenges--with AC, they explicitly exclude Star Alliance elites from the challenge. With TK, the terms are pretty unclear, but apparently people have been denied a UA - TK match.
There seems to be some scattered reports of EVA granting status matches too.
I'd peruse StatusMatcher | Obtain Elite Travel Status for viable options.
That being said, off the top of my head, Turkish and Air Canada offer status matches and challenges--with AC, they explicitly exclude Star Alliance elites from the challenge. With TK, the terms are pretty unclear, but apparently people have been denied a UA - TK match.
There seems to be some scattered reports of EVA granting status matches too.
I'd peruse StatusMatcher | Obtain Elite Travel Status for viable options.
Dec 25, 2018, 2:00 am
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I am currently United Gold, but I am losing it in January. Before I lose it, is there a Star Alliance carrier that I can status match to? It is most convenient for me to fly United or American, so I would love to status match to a Star Alliance or One World Carrier. I know about the AA Status challenge, but I was wondering if there is an easier status match to a Star Alliance carrier.
Will you fly on the aircraft of the new ffp?
Status matches, when offered, are often 1 level below what you have. But some ffp's will offer a challenge. Or they will just say "no" and expect you to earn it as the normal ffp t&c's.
Dec 25, 2018, 4:10 am
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Within Star Alliance, you are out of luck.
Also check out Aegean Air to see if it works in your situation. You only need to fly 24K to get *A gold status provided you have four segments on Aegean and Olympic Air operated flights each year.
https://en.aegeanair.com/milesandbon...-program/gold/
Dec 25, 2018, 1:42 pm
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And if you are in Athens, you can do the 4 segments for Aegean in one morning if you start early enough, e.g., ATH-JTR, JTR-ATH, ATH-JTR, JTR-ATH. If you book during a sale, the total cost can be well under EUR 200 (I've done the equivalent for under EUR 100, but that year seemed to have exceptionally low intra-Greece fares).
Dec 25, 2018, 1:52 pm
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AS is not a *A carrier. So not much help to OP who needs a non-UA *A carrier.
Dec 25, 2018, 1:55 pm
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Dec 26, 2018, 10:42 pm
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Um, no. I will not fly the airline of that plan. I will fly the US carrier in that alliance, and reap the alliance benefits. In some cases, lounge access is better with the foreign carrier elite status of the alliance than with the US carrier of the alliance.
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Dec 26, 2018, 10:46 pm
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Dec 26, 2018, 10:48 pm
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Oh, that's new! I did an AS status match a couple years ago and there were no requirements other than current status. Thanks!
Yes, I am aware AS is not *A carrier and is no longer a OW partner. I was just using it as an example of straight up status matching (which apparently it no longer does).
That certainly makes sense from the airlines perspective. Thanks for letting me know.
That certainly makes sense from the airlines perspective. Thanks for letting me know.
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