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Delta partner Kenya Airways will status match anyone with a heartbeat (well, anyone with a credit card) and they have a separate promotion that lets you claim triple status miles to keep what you’ve matched.
You can even get status if you have a premium credit card or airline status or cruise status but don’t have any hotel status.
Frontier Airlines is offering Gold elite status through December 2026 even if you do not have any status today with another airline. All you have to be is a member of the Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Spirit Airlines or JetBlue frequent flyer programs.
One part of the partnership that continues is that annual offer to Hyatt elites to try American status and vice versa.
A reader booked a double points rate through Hilton and never got their double points after more than a month’s worth of follow up. So they disputed the hotel charge and won. Hilton closed their Diamond account. This is the story of how they got their Diamond status back.
Now that JetBlue is a clear competitor, American is going after their best customers with a limited-time status match offer. Through June 30, American is more generous in the status they’ll offer to TrueBlue members. In fact, Mosaic 3 and 4 members can get Executive Platinum status.
Customers are unhappy with Southwest for adding checked bag fees and generally walking back their entire differentiated business model, laying off employees for the first time, and going back on the CEO’s word from just a few months ago about what they had planned.
It’s the perfect time for competitors to capitalize on that dissatisfaction – but this takes it to the next level, and also qualifies as expert trolling. I love it!
Marriott is acquiring CitizenM hotels, which I think of as a better Moxy, for a cost of $355 million. CitizenM has a free status match program.
Glen Hauenstein offered during the carrier’s first quarter earnings call that they plan to go after the loyal customers of airlines that are trying to convert themselves into premium – like Southwest Airlines as well as Spirit and Frontier. They’ve had an elevated status match offer for Southwest elites, and Hauenstein says it is working.
Southwest Airlines is blowing up their brand. They’re eliminating ‘bags fly free’. They’re introducing basic economy fares. They’ve devalued Rapid Rewards. American Airlines already stepped in to recruit Southwest’s best customers. Now Delta is doing the same.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
