An airberlin status match offers you another route to British Airways lounge access

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• Peter says:

  20 Mar20 March 23:04

  Completely off topic. I want to upgrade my wife’s Amex from gold to platinum (I know Raffles recommends cancelling then reapplying in 6 months time but this works for us this way).

  Problem is it does not ask for household income when you apply for this, only personal, and hers is way off the 40K required. How likely is she to get rejected for this and is it a typo on the form and should be household as there is no other place to put extra income info?

  • Chris says:

    21 Mar21 March 00:26

    If you are paying the £450 I’ve found they don’t care. It’s also combined income for the household not solo. Good luck!

• Lady London says:

  21 Mar21 March 02:50

  Is AB card matched by anyone else?

• Empers says:

  21 Mar21 March 07:48

  Great service from AirBerlin. I emailed them a scan of my Gulf Air Gold card (status matched from CX Gold) at 4pm, then at 8:30pm I had an email saying I was Ab Gold and would receive my new card within the next 14 days!!

  Now we can get into T5 galleries lounges as a family, even for the Mark Warner
  Holiday BA charter flights.

  Thanks Raffles, without your excellent website this infrequent flyer would not have enjoyed lounge access and fast track security on the rare occasions I have flown over the last 2 years!

  • Howard says:

    21 Mar21 March 11:46

    Agree with Empers

    Raffles. Thanks so much for your brilliant advice and hard work. My wife and I have First Return to New York from LHR. Would not be possible without your hard work.

  • Oh! Matron! says:

    23 Mar23 March 09:30

    Mine took a little longer, over the weekend, but confirmed this morning 🙂

    Now to stop the BA staff from *adding* my air berlin number to my booking when going into the lounges at heathrow

• Mike says:

  21 Mar21 March 15:25

  Good to hear fellow travellers are getting such fast responses. Am Gold Elite (no called Platinum) with Etihad + Emirates Gold + Virgin Gold. Sent everything when Rob mentioned on the site and no response yet…let’s wait and see!

• Chris says:

  23 Mar23 March 06:27

  Hi, I’ve emailed off my Hertz Gold status to Air Berlin, I hope this one works! Good spot!

  • TimS says:

    23 Mar23 March 06:54

    I think this means status match the other way around, ie gold Air Berlin will get you Hertz Gold, not that Hertz gets you AB.

    • TimS says:

      23 Mar23 March 06:56

      That’s based partially on common sense and partially on the fact that the top 2 AB tiers both match to Sixt Plat.

      • Chris says:

        23 Mar23 March 09:36

        Sadly that makes sense, I only have bronze BA sadly at the moment, any other ways around this?

• Nathaniel says:

  23 Mar23 March 10:06

  Thanks for this article. I filled out form on Friday. I’ve already been matched on Monday!
  SAS Eurobonus Gold to Topbonus Gold

• Howard says:

  23 Mar23 March 11:15

  I called Etihad this morning.

  Seems I am not gold…They said I have to go to ticket office with my booking!!!

  Anyhow they have my screen shot of the offer and my gold marco polo card

  I have someone looking into this for me so lets see how they respond.

  • Alan says:

    23 Mar23 March 11:26

    I’m bouncing back and forth between their social media team and customer service folk – I’m suspicious their over-eager email filtering has binned a lot of the email requests as my recent ones to them keep bouncing with a return error.

• Matthew says:

  23 Mar23 March 12:23

  I sent a screenshot of my TK Elite card to AB at lunchtime on Friday and received a status match to AB Gold this morning. I’m already BA Silver so it’ll have limited use but worth having all the same.

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