Got status matched! Now what? Star Alliance / United / Thai

[jch]

And all *J!

I think J passengers get a free half hour massage in the Thai lounge so do that first, then a drink in the BR lounge which I've also heard good things about.

I booked an award ticket to BKK-MEL on the new A350 to avoid the old 747 to Sydney, then fly Virgin the rest of the way.

 

[Carrots]

Interesting to see this pop up -

Applied last year before a trip to South Africa where we had a couple of internal flights book through to SAA and was concerned there maybe issue with recognition of Velocity on internal domestic flights. *A Gold was handing on the CPT JNB sector as it was SAA metal, however annoyingly (but understandable) with SAA, you can't use *A Gold when booking direct with SAA but flights operated by SA Airlink.

Perhaps the worst bit of the lot - only reason I ended up using *A status was because they would not recognise my VA status and the extra baggage limit it came with. And to add insult to injury - missed out on 60 status points as a result.

Perhaps the best bit of the lot, whilst I've not looked lately in the App or online, but in my Apple Wallet it still shows the *A Gold status.

 

[gluewell14]

United's *A status match is a great way to get your foot in the door to start enjoying the status benefits, then try to credit your miles to a lower threshold carrier for maintaining *A Gold such as Asiana or Turkish airlines

As someone who doesn't have any status with other *A carriers, what do you suggest I do? I just got QF SG matched with United. Only really travel to US for work (hence either QF or UA).

Personal travel involves small Asia trips, and I have been saving for RTW J Reward with SQ. If I credit these United flight miles with them will that work in my favour for reward availability in the future?

 

[k_sheep]

Tempted to give this a crack - I'm in central america / USA in July, so could do the challenge then.

Only other consideration would be for TK - I've got J flights MNL-IST-ORD return coming up. But I understand they only match platinum (I'm QF gold). Guess I'll credit those flights to SQ so at least they are useful miles.