Crazy …. match your BA status to SAS (SkyTeam) which you can match to Lufthansa (Star)!

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• HH says:

  6 Jul6 July 12:03

  So is it a good sign or bad sign if I submitted the form and got nothing by email (others seem to be getting an automated email)?

  • DM says:

    6 Jul6 July 12:47

    I also did not get an automated email 🙁

  • Charlie says:

    6 Jul6 July 12:49

    Receive near instant reply by email. Respond to the email address provided with documentation ensuring the Unique ID given at the bottom of the email (a combination of your current status number and your SAS number) are showing.

    • Bear says:

      6 Jul6 July 13:10

      What programme did you match with and what browser did you use? I have been trying and got no confirmation whatsoever. I got the link from the email SAS sent me

      • Charlie says:

        7 Jul7 July 09:06

        BA Gold

• DM says:

  6 Jul6 July 12:36

  Seems that in the Luthansa T&Cs – ‘chainmatched’ statuses to Luthansa will be declined…. plus the six flight challenge to extend Senator going to be quite a push by November and it’s not clear if doing 2 flights would see you keep Frequent Traveller from matched Senator (if you manage to get it approved) so not sure that leg of this process is worth it.

  • Rob says:

    6 Jul6 July 12:52

    Six flights are fairly easy. For eg, I need to go to Warsaw in October. I will book it on Lufty and go London – Frankfurt – Warsaw – Frankfurt – London. Four segments in one go and I’ll probably pay less than if I’d booked direct.

    • Vit says:

      6 Jul6 July 13:36

      Yes, similar in my case for September I could get 6 segments in one return trip. EDI-FRA-MUN-OSL (exact same in return).

    • Charlie says:

      7 Jul7 July 13:11

      LOT is your friend for inexpensive quick segments around Poland via Warsaw. I maintained AirNZ Gold for several years by getting the required extra segments when I was working in Poland. Looking at Lufty’s new chart, it looks like all LH Group segments are now revenue based where was that did not used to be the case. LOT (which count towards the 6 segments) are still credited by fare class, however the LOT website used to be good at displaying the fare class before booking and the lowest buckets seem to count. Also, Warsaw is one of the complimentary Finnair Northern European destinations. So if anyone with OneWorld Emerald fancied a nice little trip via Helsinki and on the A350 to LHR in Premium Economy seats it is quite a nice little route.

  • Lobster says:

    6 Jul6 July 13:48

    Yes, that’s what the T&C say (complete with typos): “Any application where StatusMatch.com belives the origin account has not earned the status through flight activity qualifying as per the standard program criteria, or ‘chain matched’ from another program, will be declined.”

    • Rob says:

      6 Jul6 July 14:59

      But there is zero way of them knowing this EXCEPT when the status you are applying with was got via statusmatch.com.

  • Blair Waldorf Salad says:

    6 Jul6 July 14:25

    “chainmatched’ statuses to Luthansa will be declined”
    – can you say more on this? How is it defined?

    • Shadow says:

      6 Jul6 July 14:30

      I have matched my SAS EB gold status from Finnair earlier from statusmatch.com and the request to match to LH have been refused by statusmatch.com due to “not earned status”

      • Rob says:

        6 Jul6 July 14:58

        That’s statusmatch.com earning their $ for the airlines by blocking this sort of thing.

    • Ian says:

      6 Jul6 July 14:37

      Well I suspect doing exactly what HfP is telling people they can do….matching BA to SAS and then trying to use the matched SAS status to get LH status. Another example of something appearing simpler than it really is!

      • Rob says:

        6 Jul6 July 15:01

        Except statusmatch.com only knows you were comped in the first place if you got your status through them.

        I was comped SAS status last year by the airline, have never used it and LH was happy to match it.

        • Lobster says:

          6 Jul6 July 15:29

          I think it’s probably safe to post this, given that it appears they’re already clamping down: Wouldn’t the Eurobonus membership number give a clue as to whether someone has had an account for a while or just opened it? If you (Rob) were comped a year ago then yours would be fine, whereas mine (and others’ here) would scream “July 2024”.

• Doug says:

  6 Jul6 July 14:53

  how much are they charging for this

  • Rob says:

    6 Jul6 July 14:57

    Nothing.

• duggie1982 says:

  6 Jul6 July 17:06

  Nice find Rob, loosing my BA silver soon so this could come in handy

• Paul says:

  6 Jul6 July 17:10

  I’m going to give this a shot.

  On the question of whether LHG would honour the EB “new” status, it seems to me that it makes sense for them to do so.

  In my case, if I get EB gold, I’m likely to put some autumn flights the way of SAS to extend the status into 2025.

  However if LHG match it, as I’ve already got some LHG group flights that autumn spend will go to the them… thus securing *A favouritism for 2025. And isn’t that the whole point – to get us to prefer one alliance over another?

• points_worrier says:

  6 Jul6 July 21:14

  Gave SAS a go. Failed because I had put my SAS number in as EBXXXXXXXXX as on the website, rather than XXXXXXXXX.
  Drat.

  • points_worrier says:

    6 Jul6 July 21:44

    I’ve also chuckled at the email from SAS inviting me to join their ‘conscious traveler’ programme. I know I am partial to some alcohol whilst traveling, but I would like to think I usually retain basic consciousness…!

• P says:

  6 Jul6 July 23:59

  If I have Virgin Silver which airlines will match? Will British match?

  • Rob says:

    7 Jul7 July 00:06

    BA virtually never matches, but other oneworld carriers might.

• OnTheRun says:

  7 Jul7 July 08:19

  I will be travelling and earning points on UA (which I understand is not on the list of eligible partner airlines to extend status)

  My question is one of lounge access.

  If I manage to obtain LH Senator status, is it possible to use a *A lounge, even though I am not crediting the flight to that particular airline?

  For example is it possible to use UA club lounge with the LH Senator?

  (New to this stuff!)

  Thank you

  • Rob says:

    7 Jul7 July 08:53

    Yes

  • Charlie says:

    7 Jul7 July 09:02

    If you have Star Gold status with any Star Alliance airline you have access to all Star business lounges. Some, such as Lufty and LOT, have separate lounges for golds that tend to be better than the business class lounges in Europe. However, United, Singapore, ANA reverse this by offering business class lounges mainly only to business class fares. Use the Star Alliance web page to establish what you are eligible for with United. Finally, if you have Amex Platinum you can access some Lufthansa lounges – the business lounges if you have an economy ticket and the gold lounges if you have a business ticket. Check out the Amex lounge page for that, but it is not correct (for example at Munich only two lounges are eligible, not all).

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