LAST CHANCE: Alitalia status match ends in two days – get status with 26 airlines

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• Danksy says:

  29 Jan29 January 05:29

  Almost forgot about this! Good shout!

  • PTWorker says:

    29 Jan29 January 08:40

    Website is having real difficulty accepting UK postcodes. Contact centre said is was a tech problem that won’t be fixed until tomorrow!!

    • Chris says:

      29 Jan29 January 14:27

      I worked out a quick fix to the post code issue. I put my whole address and post code in the first line and entered 3 or 4 zeros for the post code. I’m sure Royal Mail have seen worse.

• Danksy says:

  29 Jan29 January 05:45

  Just joined …their buggy website is on a par with Iberia!

• James says:

  29 Jan29 January 05:52

  I got turned down for a BA Silver match this week. No explanation given, just that I didn’t meet their criteria.

  • Will says:

    29 Jan29 January 06:31

    You need to be persistent. I got accepted fat first attempt but sent a screen shot of the card on the app and also a picture of both sides of my physical silver card. Also made it clear in email that it was one world sapphire and wanted to be matched to whatever Alitalias version of silver is. My home page on the AZ website changed to gold in a couple of days. Physical card arrived within a week.

    • James says:

      29 Jan29 January 06:39

      Make sure you send a photo / scan of the physical card and not the screen shot of the card from your profile; that seemed to be the thing that slowed me down. Once I sent in a photo rather than a screenshot I was matched pretty quickly!

      • ee says:

        29 Jan29 January 06:51

        Ditto although no email came saying I had been matched, just the card design changed when I logged in to their site.

• Marwan says:

  29 Jan29 January 06:54

  Did we get clarity on access to the Etihad lounge at LHR T4 when flying Alitalia in Y? Is this only for Freccia Alata members?

  • Marwan says:

    29 Jan29 January 07:47

    Sorry mean to say “only for Freccia Alata Plus members”.

• Tim @ Points to be Made says:

  29 Jan29 January 06:57

  There is also another solid benefit with the status much to Freccia Alata Plus which is that you can also give Freccia Alata to another person. Both levels are Skyteam Elite Plus so it’s a nice double whammy to get lounge access, priority boarding etc.

  • Tim @ Points to be Made says:

    29 Jan29 January 06:58

    *match, not much! (Speech to text conversion error)

• Geoggy says:

  29 Jan29 January 07:18

  I’m confused – dos this give you one world status?

  Which of these cards will they match?

  Etihad Gold?

  Gulf Air Gold?

  • Marwan says:

    29 Jan29 January 07:29

    Airberlin is the only Oneworld airline that will status match. You can match from Alitalia to AB Gold, as long as you “live” in Germany, Austria, Switzerland or the US.

    • Fenny says:

      29 Jan29 January 08:36

      They asked for proof of my status, eg German ID card. I may “move” to the US and see if I an try again.

      • Ian Boyle says:

        29 Jan29 January 13:59

        Any advice on how to “move”?

        I have no relatives in the US so the card would end up getting sent to a random address

        Thanks

        • Fenny says:

          29 Jan29 January 15:14

          I’m lucky enough to have a bunch of friends in Leftpondia. But if they ask for any kind of proof that I live there, I don’t have anything with addresses on. You could always use a NYC YMCA address (easy to find online). I use the zip code 10017 (47th St) whenever I need a US location to sign up for things.

          As long as you get the match, you can then change address back to the UK and ask for a replacement card. Or download the app or temporary card to use instead of a physical card.

    • John says:

      29 Jan29 January 09:26

      Airberlin wants proper proof of residence (not just address!) in the German-speaking countries. The only way to avoid this appears to be emailing them in German.

      If you email Alitalia in Italian then they may give you more than you were expecting too (but obviously if you’re already top tier there’s nothing more to expect)

      • Lady London says:

        29 Jan29 January 09:58

        Emailing them in Italian might not help. That’s what I did. They only matched my A3 Gold to Freccia Alata, despite a further request. Others had reported being matched to the correct level which so far as I am aware, would be Freccia Alata Plus.

        I can’t do anything with their Silver level. I have 4-8 trips I can convert to Alitalia this year including some longhaul. But currently I have Gold elsewhere so I simply can’t use the Silver level Alitalia has given me as I would lose out.

        So I’d recommend emailing them in English!

• Alan says:

  29 Jan29 January 07:28

  Given that when I matched my silver Ba I got the equivalent of sky team elite plus. If I used that card to match with air Berlin would I get emerald status?

  • Marwan says:

    29 Jan29 January 07:38

    No, they only match up to Gold (Sapphire)

    • Alan says:

      29 Jan29 January 08:00

      Thought that might be the case.

• AndyS says:

  29 Jan29 January 07:49

  Thanks for this reminder. I did manage to status match with BA Gold from a previous article, but since then I’d forgotten that Alitalia were part of sky team. I have since made a booking with KLM but signed up to Flying Blue and used that number on the booking.

  Would I be able to access a lounge by flashing this card and BP, or only if the Alitalia number is on the booking ? If so am I allowed a guest?

  • Raffles says:

    29 Jan29 January 08:30

    In my experience trying that with BA when I had Cathay Gold, it depends on the mood of the lounge door person on the day. Some will insist you swap your FF number over, others won’t.

    • Lady London says:

      29 Jan29 January 10:01

      … and your last chance to try to get the number changed would then be at the gate.

    • LondonFoodie says:

      29 Jan29 January 14:12

      Though in theory you can have different FF for benefits and for accumulation (FQTV and FQTS fields if my memory serves me right). This is useful when a BA Silver member wants to credit his/her miles to AA while enjoying lounge access.

      • Rob says:

        29 Jan29 January 16:19

        You can, yes. Good luck finding an agent who knows how to do that!

        • Ben says:

          29 Jan29 January 17:33

          Are there any particular instructions to give them? For example, go into the booking, and on line X put FF number for benefits, on line Y put FF number for accumulation…?

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