StatusMatcher – what tier matches can you get from your existing airline and hotel status cards?

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• Nick says:

  9 Jan9 January 06:27

  I believe that Best Western still have their ‘Status Match No Catch’ offer available. We were staying at one of their hotels over Christmas, so gave it a go. They matched my IHG Diamond status to their top tier, ‘Diamond Select’ until March 2025 (I think you can probably now get March 2026). Frankly, there’s very little difference between their tiers, except for reward point multiples, but we hoped that we’d have more chance of an upgrade if others were trying. We did!

• krys_k says:

  9 Jan9 January 08:00

  The Hilton match is not open to anyone who already holds gold (which I have via Amex Platinum). I’d like to match my Marriott Titanium and could put lots of nights into Hilton if they offered up Diamond. At least in my case their status match looses Hilton my business (I’m of course insignificant to the bottom line; but lots of folks like me together could be).

  • Guernsey Globetrotter says:

    9 Jan9 January 11:33

    Just open another account using a new email address, complete the status match and then ask to merge with your old account (if the history is of value to you).

    • krys_k says:

      9 Jan9 January 11:36

      Brilliant. Thank you.

• Rob says:

  9 Jan9 January 08:01

  It’s not as if StatusMatcher is trying to sell you anything or even ask for any of your data! If you find it useful, contribute an experience of your own. If not, don’t.

• ba says:

  9 Jan9 January 08:20

  It is common to mask who.is data and, as the website says, it is operated by Statusmatcher LLC out of Conshohocken, PA. If you wanted to, presumably you could make enquiries with the Department of State to obtain further information about the company including the names of its officers. I’m not sure why this matters though…

• Jay says:

  9 Jan9 January 09:19

  The status match site referred to on Flyertalk is statusmatch.com not statusmatcher.com which was the subject of the article.

• jj says:

  9 Jan9 January 09:38

  My view on life is that businesses with status schemes are best avoided unless I have status with them, as the value proposition is inevitably worse due to the discounts offered to status holders.

  So, for airlines, use a LCC unless you have status. For hotels, use independents and ignore Marriott, Hilton, etc unless you have high-end status. For supermarkets, always go to a discounter unless you carry the requisite membership card.

  So a status match is the only way that I would, for example, begin to fly with a *A carrier or stay in a Hyatt.

• Polly says:

  9 Jan9 January 10:05

  It was VERY useful when CX stopped their Gold card obtained with Amex Platinum card. QR status matched us to their equivalent, as we were using QR a lot then back and forth to the ME. And good old Air Berlin too. So it meant we could retain BA Silver equivalent for years. It was quite useful seeing who was having success or failure to match at the time.
  It was a bit more tricky to navigate, the last time l looked.

• Tim says:

  9 Jan9 January 10:41

  I got status match with Latam from another airline.

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