As I've been covering over the past several weeks,Hyatt kicked off a bit of a status match frenzy several weeks back, when they initially began status matching just about anyone with any status with a competitor to their top tier Diamond status. Given the volume of status match requests they eventually began limiting the promotion to those with SPG Platinum status, and which makes perfect sense,given that they were originally targeting those who were worried about the merger between Marriott & Starwood.
Hilton responded by also offering status matches to elite members in competing programs. I was impressed by how clearly they published the terms of the status match promotion. The promotion is valid for status match requests through January 11, 2016, and matched status is valid through March 2017.
While I wasn't originally going to,I ended up status matching to Hilton Diamond status, and my experience was worthy -- I received acknowledgement of my status request within 30 minutes, or was matched within a few hours.
As I explained at the time,the reasons I status matched to Hilton HHonors Diamond status included the following:The post Request A Status Match Directly Through Hilton’s Website appeared first on One Mile at a Time.
Source: boardingarea.com