Status Matching for Lounge Perks
00:00:00.000 | One of the strategies I've used in the past is if you're going on a big international trip,
00:00:03.800 | and I would say this is probably earlier in your miles and points journey, right? Earlier in the
00:00:07.820 | journey, I wasn't even thinking about business class. I was like, I just got enough points to
00:00:11.140 | take a trip internationally. Why would I use twice as many points to go in business class? Who cares?
00:00:15.540 | Like, I want to take two trips. So it was like, how do I get into lounges? How do I get this better
00:00:19.380 | experience? How do I pick the seats, get the free bags, all that. And there's a lot of international
00:00:23.700 | airlines where you can status match. And maybe they'll only give you status for three months
00:00:28.720 | until you fly on them. But if you're going to take one trip, and you're going to Greece,
00:00:32.760 | if you have a GN status for three months, that's all you need. And so there are a couple times where
00:00:37.380 | I would status match to an airline, and they immediately give you the status for three months.
00:00:41.220 | And I would use it in those three months to get a lot of benefits. And then I would never take that
00:00:45.260 | flight. I would never credit it. I would never get any perks, never get any benefits beyond that.
00:00:49.280 | But it made that one trip a lot more enjoyable.