If you’ve been waiting for a Star Alliance status against your British Airways Executive Club Membership or Iberia Plus Membership, one has been launched at https://lufthansa.statusmatch.com/.
The status match covers both British Airways Executive Club and Iberia Plus Memberships. You can match the following:
- Frequent Traveller – BA Silver, IB Plata
- Senator – BA Gold, BAGold Guest List, BA Premier, IB Oro, IB Platino, IB Infinita, IB Infinita Prime
You cannot match to HON Circle. Here’s the handy chart you need.
This is not region-locked – so members around the world can take part in the match.
If you apply for a match and are successful, you will retain status until 28th February 2026. It will take up to 10 days to approve your match.
Cost
It’s going to cost you €99 to apply for a match.
As well as having a BA/IB account with the appropriate status, you will also need to be an enrolled member of Miles & More and have a service number (membership number) to submit as part of the process.
Deadline to apply
Like a lot of these offers, the status match offer is limited in number of matches and timeframe at the sole discretion of StatusMatch.com, Lufthansa and Miles & More. It may end at any time.
T&C’s?
For those of you who match to Senator, you will not receive any eVouchers with the status upgrade and will not be able to use the mileage advance privilege.
You cannot take part if your Miles & More account has received a match via the StatusMatch.com service. Requests are handled by All status match requests are handled by and are the responsibility of StatusMatch.com and not by Lufthansa, Miles & More or any of its affiliates.
Full terms and conditions are at https://lufthansa.statusmatch.com/terms/ whilst the FAQ is at https://lufthansa.statusmatch.com/faq/.
Where can I apply?
At https://lufthansa.statusmatch.com/
The Quickest of Takes
We’ve seen movement across multiple airlines since British Airways (and Iberia), with Air France-KLM, Virgin Atlantic and even easyJet all putting their interest in poaching British Airways Executive Club members.
It seems that Lufthansa Group are now after Iberia Members as well, with the latest offer, and I suspect there may be a few more airlines keeping more than a close eye on this.
Apart from the reduced membership year, there is one thing to be careful of – Lufthansa is moving to a dynamic redemption chart, so you may need a lot more miles than you used to in the past to redeem for routes.
Lufthana’s route map is impressive however, with a lot of subsidiary airlines that should allow you to commute from the regions to one of the airline’s hubs (remember, Lufthansa Group has Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings, ITA Airways and SWISS, as well as Lufthansa itself and its smaller subsidiaries (Lufthansa CityLine, Air Dolomiti, Lufthansa City Airlines and Discover Airlines).
That choice could swing it for some frequent travellers.
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