Air France KLM Flying Blue is offering status matches up to Platinum, the level required to redeem points for first class awards on Air France. They’ll even match United Platinum and American Platinum Pro members to Flying Blue Platinum.

There are two caveats.

• This is a paid status match opportunity, with Silver costing €79; Gold €199; Platinum €399.
  
• This is targeted at U.K. residents, “The Status Match offer is only open to UK passport or driver’s license holders. You may be required to provide evidence upon application.”

Silver isn’t worth very much. Status matches you aren’t going to use won’t be worthwhile given the cost. And most of you aren’t from the U.K.

Nonetheless, this is interesting to see because it’s a very aggressive way to attract frequent flyers in a market and because of the willingness to status match to top tier. Air France KLM generally does not status match at all, either! Yet an American AAdvantage member in the U.K. doesn’t need to be Executive Platinum or ConciergeKey in order to be matched to Flying Blue Platinum.

Flying Blue Tier
AIRLINE	SILVER	GOLD	PLATINUM
Aer Lingus AerClub	SILVER	PLATINUM	CONCIERGE
Air Canada Aeroplan	PRESTIGE 25K	ELITE 35K ELITE 50K	ELITE 75K SUPER ELITE 100K
American Airlines AAdvantage	GOLD	PLATINUM	CONCIERGE KEY EXECUTIVE PLATINUM PLATINUM PRO
British Airways Executive Club	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD GOLD GUEST LIST PREMIER
Emirates Skywards	SILVER	GOLD	IO PLATINUM
Iberia Plus	SILVER	GOLD	INFINITA PLATINUM PRIME SINGULAR
Lufthansa Miles & More	FREQUENT TRAVELLER	SENATOR	HON CIRCLE
Malaysia Airlines Enrich	SILVER	GOLD	PLATINUM PLATINUM PLUS
Qatar Airways Privilege Club	SILVER	GOLD	PLATINUM
Scandinavian Airlines EuroBonus	SILVER	GOLD	DIAMOND PANDION
TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go	SILVER	GOLD	NAVIGATOR
Turkish Airlines Miles&Smiles	CLASSIC PLUS	ELITE	ELITE PLUS
United Airlines MileagePlus	PREMIER SILVER	PREMIER GOLD	GLOBAL SERVICES PREMIER 1K PREMIER PLATINUM

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If I could credibly demonstrate U.K. residency I’d match for Flying Blue Platinum, especially since I’m sitting on a decent chunk of Flying Blue miles after the recent Bilt 150% transfer bonus.

Naturally the list of programs they’ll match against doesn’t include Delta, since they’re part of SkyTeam and a joint venture partner (I wouldn’t expect this offer to come to the U.S., either, since Delta largely gets U.S. point of sale in the partnership) and it also doesn’t include matching against Virgin Atlantic even as it targets U.K. members given their participation in SkyTeam. But a nice variety of programs they’ll consider status matches to.