Get Gold frequent flyer status on Star Alliance for free!

If you are Gold or Silver status in ANY frequent flyer (*) program e.g.

British Airways / Oneworld
Air France / Sky team
KLM
etc. etc.

then you can qualify for the same status on the Star Alliance program for
free!

And if you fly on Star alliance before mid May you get an extra 5000 bonus
miles!

Just send me an email for the terms and conditions (the major one being you
must be UK resident.) Indicate whether you want to apply for Asiana, British
Midland (BMI) or Thai Airways


sa66@pennybags.com

(*) You cannot use Gold/Silver status in one Star Alliance program to
qualify for another.

"Email Dumped Unchecked" <newsgroups@gabhsann.> writes:

> If I could do the opposite I'd be impressed: One World Gold status to match
> my Star Alliance... Come on BA, match this please....
>
> Thinking bigger picture: Does this not negate the whole point of having a
> loyalty program? If airlines match others status, then there is no
> incentive for you to stay with one particular carrier, hence why should they
> bother giving miles at all?

In the past these "comp" offers have sometimes been once in a lifetime
deals, i.e. I doubt that any airline would match status multiple years
in a row.

Gunnar

"David MOSS" <sa66@pennybags.com> wrote in message
news:1076068643.560830@ernani.logica.co.uk...
> If you are Gold or Silver status in ANY frequent flyer (*) program e.g.
>
> British Airways / Oneworld
> Air France / Sky team
> KLM
> etc. etc.
>
> then you can qualify for the same status on the Star Alliance program for
> free!
>
> And if you fly on Star alliance before mid May you get an extra 5000 bonus
> miles!
>
> Just send me an email for the terms and conditions (the major one being
you
> must be UK resident.) Indicate whether you want to apply for Asiana,
British
> Midland (BMI) or Thai Airways
>
>

According to Star Alliance, Silver status does not allow access to lounges
and most member airlines status pages align with this. However, BMI Silver
does allow access to lounges? Surley it would, therefore be better for
someone like myself with One World Silver/Saphire status, joining the BMI
program. The other benefits do not seem that great at Silver Level on other
Star partners. Or am I wrong. Has anyone compared One World status
benefits to Star Benefits. I suppose, however, I should not look a gift
horse in the mouth.

MC

"MC" <notincognito@m> writes:

> According to Star Alliance, Silver status does not allow access to lounges
> and most member airlines status pages align with this. However, BMI Silver
> does allow access to lounges? Surley it would, therefore be better for
> someone like myself with One World Silver/Saphire status, joining the BMI
> program. The other benefits do not seem that great at Silver Level on other
> Star partners. Or am I wrong. Has anyone compared One World status
> benefits to Star Benefits.

I think most airlines only allow *Silver members into their own
lounges and normally only let them use their own Business-class
check-in. I believe no lounges are designated as accessible to
*Silver. Star Alliance Silver Status is more similar to OneWorld Ruby
(e.g. AA Gold).

If you have One World Sapphire status you should try to get comped to
Star Gold (e.g. possibly one of the middle tiers like UA PremEx). If
you are lucky you might even get the top tier in one of the two tier
programmes (e.g. LH Senator).


Gunnar

"Julian Fowler" <julian@bellevue-barn.org.uk> wrote in message
news:925720deuqli9ir5ocl7kdvqav6k2f11b0@...
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:59:09 -0000, "David MOSS" <sa66@pennybags.com>
> wrote:
>
> >If you are Gold or Silver status in ANY frequent flyer (*) program e.g.
> >
> >British Airways / Oneworld
> >Air France / Sky team
> >KLM
> >etc. etc.
> >
> >then you can qualify for the same status on the Star Alliance program for
> >free!
>
> Oh .... great. I hope that this means that SA will introduce another
> tier of membership for those of us who have SA Gold status as a result
> of flying on SA carriers. I thought that the whole idea of FF schemes
> was to reward those who bring repeat business!
>

Nope the idea off FF status is to keep those who use a carrier already (i.e.
to make you want to use them next year, not as a reward for using them last
year - a subtle difference), as well as trying to attract those who use
other carriers currently.

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:40:38 -0000, "resenär"
<manager@REMOVETHIStravelextrasuk.com> wrote:

>> If you are Gold or Silver status in ANY frequent flyer (*) program e.g.
>>
>> British Airways / Oneworld
>> Air France / Sky team
>> KLM
>> etc. etc.
>>
>> then you can qualify for the same status on the Star Alliance program for
>> free!

I doubt it's *quite* the same status. Apparently[1], I am "Platinum
for Life[2]" with AA , and (even if this I qualified for this program
by being a UK resident) I doubts I'd become Star Alliance
Gold-for-life.

And looking at the Star Alliance website, I have to say that after all
these years they aren't terribly impressive ("Coming Soon!")...

Malc.

[1] I say apparently, because the link that Toe published yesterday
says 2,000,000 miles = Platinum for Life[2], but I never got a letter
from Mike Gunn of AA about the 2,000,000 mile mark (which I thought a
bit cheap) although I did get bag tags, etc. saying "2 Million Miles".
I knew I was Gold for Life[2] from the 1,000,000 mile mark...

[2] Life of the Program, not my life or the airline's life!

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 18:05:56 -0000, "MC" <notincognito@m>
wrote:

>According to Star Alliance, Silver status does not allow access to lounges
>and most member airlines status pages align with this. However, BMI Silver
>does allow access to lounges? Surley it would, therefore be better for
>someone like myself with One World Silver/Saphire status,

Star Silver = OneWorld Ruby...

>joining the BMI
>program. The other benefits do not seem that great at Silver Level on other
>Star partners. Or am I wrong. Has anyone compared One World status
>benefits to Star Benefits. I suppose, however, I should not look a gift
>horse in the mouth.

Yes, but in general the benefits that are more relevant are the "home"
airline's benefits. For me, Star vs. OneWorld means AA vs. UA (and a
touch of AC). That's no contest: AA's program is far better *for me*
than United's.

[ In particular, UA limits the fares on which you can upgrade with
miles, AA doesn't! ]

>MC

Malc.

"Julian Fowler" <julian@bellevue-barn.org.uk> wrote in message
news:igt920hpejnmpue9dech59log4ervmbvik@...
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 18:05:31 -0500, "Miss L. Toe"
> <missltoemissltoe@m> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Julian Fowler" <julian@bellevue-barn.org.uk> wrote in message
> >news:925720deuqli9ir5ocl7kdvqav6k2f11b0@.. .
> >> On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 11:59:09 -0000, "David MOSS" <sa66@pennybags.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >If you are Gold or Silver status in ANY frequent flyer (*) program
e.g.
> >> >
> >> >British Airways / Oneworld
> >> >Air France / Sky team
> >> >KLM
> >> >etc. etc.
> >> >
> >> >then you can qualify for the same status on the Star Alliance program
for
> >> >free!
> >>
> >> Oh .... great. I hope that this means that SA will introduce another
> >> tier of membership for those of us who have SA Gold status as a result
> >> of flying on SA carriers. I thought that the whole idea of FF schemes
> >> was to reward those who bring repeat business!
> >>
> >
> >Nope the idea off FF status is to keep those who use a carrier already
(i.e.
> >to make you want to use them next year, not as a reward for using them
last
> >year - a subtle difference), as well as trying to attract those who use
> >other carriers currently.
>
> So, if I find myself in a bmi or UA lounge and can't get seat because
> of all the people who flew BA last year, or fail to get an upgrade
> because the available upgrades have been given to people who flew KLM
> last year .... this is supposed to make me *more* likely to keep my
> business w/ Star Alliance airlines?
>

There was a survey late last year to UK SA members that specifically asked
if you had status with any other airlines, how often you flew etc etc (I got
2000 miles for answering it twice).

So I think they have a pretty accurate idea of how many people will qualify,
and how much more traffic it will put through their lounges.

I was sort of hoping it was personalised to those who had flown a reasonable
number of times on SA but missed status (I got about 60% of the way to
status on SA in 2003). But I guess it went to everyone.

"MC" <notincognito@m> wrote in message news:1076090749.22906.0@echo.uk.clara.net...
>
> "David MOSS" <sa66@pennybags.com> wrote in message
> news:1076068643.560830@ernani.logica.co.uk...
> > If you are Gold or Silver status in ANY frequent flyer (*) program e.g.
> >
> > British Airways / Oneworld
> > Air France / Sky team
> > KLM
> > etc. etc.
> >
> > then you can qualify for the same status on the Star Alliance program for
> > free!
> >
> > And if you fly on Star alliance before mid May you get an extra 5000 bonus
> > miles!
> >
> > Just send me an email for the terms and conditions (the major one being
> you
> > must be UK resident.) Indicate whether you want to apply for Asiana,
> British
> > Midland (BMI) or Thai Airways
> >
> >
>
> According to Star Alliance, Silver status does not allow access to lounges
> and most member airlines status pages align with this.

Unless it has changed in the last month.... I have always got in the LH
lounge at LHR, once used the SAS lounge at STN and when I tried to
sneak into the Austrian lounge at VIE when I wasn't travelling Star Alliance
I was told that I would have been let in if I was flying LH or Austrian.
(I always have economy tickets BTW).

I am however somewhat bemused as to why they have sent me two lounge
access vouchers. If they really aren't going to let me in the lounge in future
then there is no point them sending me the card, I don't consider any of
the other benefits as worth having.

tim

> However, BMI Silver
> does allow access to lounges? Surley it would, therefore be better for
> someone like myself with One World Silver/Saphire status, joining the BMI
> program. The other benefits do not seem that great at Silver Level on other
> Star partners. Or am I wrong. Has anyone compared One World status
> benefits to Star Benefits. I suppose, however, I should not look a gift
> horse in the mouth.
>
> MC
>
>