Turkish Airlines still offering a Star Alliance status match to British Airways Gold members

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• Brian says:

  5 Jan5 January 08:03

  Presumably, when you refer to ‘Thai’ twice in the article, you actually mean ‘Turkish’??

• Worzel says:

  5 Jan5 January 08:15

  Brian(08:03), I think you’ll find that both Thai Airways and Turkish Airlines are members of the Star Alliance Group.

  • nux says:

    5 Jan5 January 08:36

    If you read the post, the two mentions of ‘Thai’ are in relation to them doing a status matching

    Also no such thing as Cathay Platinum, Cathay’s Emerald tier is Diamond.

  • Brian says:

    6 Jan6 January 13:45

    I realise that – but the article is about Turkish doing status matches, not Thai….

• Ralph says:

  5 Jan5 January 08:16

  OT – Raffles, I didn’t post on your request for feedback on HFP format but I do feel this fantastic site would benefit from a user forum. Nothing on the scale of others we know of but one that has topics that are specific to HFP premise. This forum can have volunteer moderators, it doesn’t all have to be moderated by yourself as this would likely end up being too much work, I would be happy to be one of those moderators, having ran a gaming forum in the past and there may be one or two others with relevant experience that could also help.

• AndrewM says:

  5 Jan5 January 09:31

  I tried to get matched from OW Emerald (BA Gold) to Turkish a few months ago and they didn’t match me. To be honest it wasn’t a big deal as it my first (and maybe last) *A flight in years.

• Mick says:

  5 Jan5 January 10:11

  Raffles, how did you get BA Status? I thought I read on here that you only really fly on redemption flights?

  I did not know you could use Avios to get status

  • Richie says:

    5 Jan5 January 10:49

    On redemption flights you do not earn status or avios. To get status you need cash tickets. . (2 return long haul business flights will get you nearly enough for silver.) once you get to that level everything changes, as you earn double avios, you have seat selection, 32kg in each bag. An extra bag. And lounge access. . Believe me it’s hardest the first time. Because if you are using your avios for upgrades later the chances are you will be earning WTp tier points minimum . And they do sometimes post at the level you have upgraded to. However they technically shouldngonthrough at the level you originally paid for.

  • Rob says:

    5 Jan5 January 16:24

    I do. Long story, best not explained here! It was NOT a freebie from BA though!

    • Calchas says:

      5 Jan5 January 16:37

      A freebie from someone else then? 😉

      • Don says:

        5 Jan5 January 19:10

        Yeah previously Raffles said he was BA Silver?

        • Rob says:

          5 Jan5 January 23:04

          I was, and now I’m Gold again!

• Roger says:

  5 Jan5 January 10:45

  I wonder what is the definition of Skyteam Elite Plus. I’m assuming it doesn’t include my lowly Flying Blue invited Gold with currently zero flights.

  OTOH, it could be worth a try.

  • Calchas says:

    5 Jan5 January 16:39

    Yes it does. Elite Plus basically means the SkyTeam lounge access tier. FB Silver, which is SkyTeam Elite (that is, “Elite non-plus”) only gets you extra baggage and priority at all queues.

    • Roger says:

      5 Jan5 January 21:16

      Gosh, thanks. 🙂

• Tim says:

  5 Jan5 January 12:23

  Can we potentially match A3*G with Turkish? Just as a backup…

  • John says:

    6 Jan6 January 06:25

    Yes, but you then need to maintain your TK gold.

• OttoMH says:

  5 Jan5 January 12:23

  I would have thought that A3 would be a better route for BA Golds? You’re likely to be flying in long haul J so a trip or 2 on star alliance will get you 2 years star gold. I did it with 2 long haul Y on AC and a few intraEU hops.

  • Calchas says:

    5 Jan5 January 16:40

    A3 Gold gives you lifetime Star Gold, unless that has changed.

    • Matt says:

      6 Jan6 January 02:21

      My A3 Gold isn’t lifetime, but it is valid for 3 years, and for only 20k flown miles. Incredible deal. I’m not aware of an A3 lifetime programme but I may have missed something…

      • John says:

        6 Jan6 January 06:24

        It isn’t lifetime, but the renewal requirement is 1 flight every 3 years.

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