Turkish Airlines (apparently) still matching ANY airline Gold card to Star Alliance Gold

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• Owain says:

  22 Mar22 March 09:51

  Raffles, I note from the instructions you have to send a copy of statement from your current frequent flier program. Having the MPC Gold through Amex Plat means even though I have the status I still credit all my oneworld flights to my BAEC account, in this instance how would this play out when attempting the status match?

  • Rob says:

    22 Mar22 March 10:03

    I would try sending a different page off the website, one that shows you are Gold but does not actually show your activity!

  • DG says:

    22 Mar22 March 11:54

    Thanks for heads up Raffles! The TK website allows up to 5 images to be attached to the form – I took photos of the front and back of my CX gold card and a snipped image of my online account statement (just showing date, name, number and status).

• mrtibbs1999 says:

  22 Mar22 March 09:58

  If you have a non oneworld status and would like a 5 month match, could I suggest Air Berlin, who within 20 minutes of my application made me TB Gold from my KLM card, service@topbonus.de

  I also applied for TK as if successful it will make me second highest tier in all 3 alliances. Thanks for the Link!

  • Rob says:

    22 Mar22 March 10:04

    Very interesting! I will do a quick post on this for next week.

    • mrtibbs1999 says:

      22 Mar22 March 10:05

      Please do, it’s a great offer and of course you can create e new TB account in 5 months at a different address and get matched to your new TK card lol

      • Pierre says:

        22 Mar22 March 17:48

        hmmm…If it is a match from *G to OW, wouldn’t it be *G->OW emerald, in which case it is a match from, let’s say, A3 gold to AB platinum?

        • Rob says:

          22 Mar22 March 18:02

          It is always pot luck with status matches. Some airlines bother to look up exactly what tier a card belonged to, some simply match to the same coloured card. This sometimes works in your favour and sometimes doesn’t.

• Ninmurai says:

  22 Mar22 March 11:53

  I sent my AA Platinum card in around August last year and it was rejected. I don’t suspect other OneWorld Sapphire statuses to go through.

• Raffles says:

  22 Mar22 March 12:06

  I doubt they are that sophisticated. BA Silver will get you Star Silver equivalent, which is useless if issued by Turkish, unless you end up flying them. I get a feeling that Cathay Gold would get Star Gold.

  • Thomas says:

    23 Mar23 March 14:47

    I have just applied using the Cathay Gold and will update as and when I hear back from Turkish. Reading on LoyaltyLobby there is some indication they may have tightened the “offer” a bit as a number of people have been turned down, but time will tell, sounds like a two month wait until we know.

• Ben says:

  24 Mar24 March 15:07

  I applied in October for the TK status match for CX gold, but was declined as they only match OW emerald.

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