It’s back: Get SkyTeam elite status (19 airlines) by matching your British Airways status

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• The Jetset Boyz says:

  19 Mar19 March 06:11

  Volare status is worthless.

  There are numerous reports on Twitter, as recently as this week, of Volare elites being refused permission to lounges operated by Skyteam members… because there’s no agreement in place.

  ITA have only joined Skyteam for one year, so it’s really not surprising that members of other Skyteam airlines are able to status match into Volare.

  • Andrew J says:

    19 Mar19 March 06:29

    Thanks for the heads-up – I won’t bother then. There’s nothing worse than being turned away from a lounge!

    • Mike says:

      19 Mar19 March 06:47

      never yet got into a lounge at Manchester with Priority Pass.
      “there might be space in half an hour” is the best I have had

    • Mike says:

      19 Mar19 March 06:58

      “Nothing worse than being turned away from a lounge “ ! – Not strictly true

  • Paul says:

    19 Mar19 March 06:44

    +1 I was refused any sort of recognition or access on Airfrance last week both in the UK and at CDG.

    • Mike says:

      19 Mar19 March 07:04

      I can only imagine the trauma you must have felt at your personal status not being recognised

  • Prince Charles says:

    19 Mar19 March 06:47

    I was on the fence about doing it because I want to continue crediting miles from Air France / KLM and Delta Flights to my Virgin Flying Club accounr and not to a new scheme which I know very little about.
    If the Volare Gold status doesn’t even get lounhe access then I will just leave it.

• Greg says:

  19 Mar19 March 06:13

  Except the registration website will not accept UK post codes. Error message incorect format 🙁

  • Nick says:

    19 Mar19 March 12:47

    Input ‘0000’ for your ‘Zip Code’ and, when registered, edit your postcode in your profile.

• Auryn says:

  19 Mar19 March 06:19

  This is only available to Silver and Gold BA exec club members.

• Gtellez says:

  19 Mar19 March 06:26

  Hi, has anyone been able to access to the benefits flying with Air France? It seems that the website only offers the option to add an Alitalia number. I’m flying at the beginning of May and it would be useful to get additional luggage and lounge access. Thanks!

• Polly says:

  19 Mar19 March 06:51

  Was waiting for this type of offer. Very useful option to use it to status match back to One World. Our silver runs put end of September this year. Unless we get another extension for those of us beyond June expiration dates. Would aim for Qatar match if we can. Used this system very effectively back and forth with Air Berlin v CX when amex stopped the CX gold, on the Platform card all those years ago. Until we got ba silver. We just can’t get the flights in to retain Silver, atm.

• James says:

  19 Mar19 March 06:55

  Can you check if ITA now have an agreement in place to use partner lounges. I was denied access to Crown Lounge in AMS flying KLM. No agreement in place. Like others said, worthless status match.

  • Andrew J says:

    19 Mar19 March 07:00

    Sounds like Rob will be disappointed on his trip to AMS then.

    • Pablo says:

      19 Mar19 March 08:38

      Reports on FT of access allowed into KLM crown lounge 52 (non-Schengen)

  • JDB says:

    19 Mar19 March 09:54

    May not be useful for lounges, but hoping it might be useful for extra luggage allowance on Aerolíneas Argentinas where even in PE, the highest domestic class each bag limited to 15kg without status. Also potentially Aeromexico domestic, although they are more generous and flexible than AR which also has big queues to pay excess.

    • The Jetset Boyz says:

      20 Mar20 March 04:59

      Won’t work because most (probably all) Skyteam airlines haven’t yet configured their systems for passengers to add a Volare FFP into bookings.

• MS says:

  19 Mar19 March 06:56

  “Will you get lounge access if you match from BA Silver?
  Yes. British Airways Silver is being matched to ‘Premium’ in Volare”

  Not true – I matched from BA Silver and ended up with ‘Volaire Club Plus’.

  Waste of time

  • Rob says:

    19 Mar19 March 11:44

    Others did not, however.

  • AS says:

    22 Mar22 March 12:06

    I am BA Silver and the first time I tried a couple of months ago, was matched to the lowest tier, Club Smart. Last week I tried again and was matched to Club Plus, so still no lounge access! Third time lucky?..

• MrIO says:

  19 Mar19 March 07:16

  I cannot find the link when I log in, where is the status match page (I have set up an account).

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