Earn Delta Partner Elite status with SAS Status Match Free-For-All without proof!

Air France has acquired a 20 percent stake in Scandinavian Airlines. SAS is switching from Star Alliance to SkyTeam on September 1. And the SAS EuroBonus program is looking for customers from competitors in the Star and oneworld alliances.

A few months ago I wrote about SAS’s offer to perform a status check. Some readers complained that this was not generally relevant enough because it was only available to residents of Europe. But it is relevant because They seem to check the status of anyone who has enough pulse to fill out a form. Signs of life are not enough, attachments do not need to be uploaded. They are simply checked for everyone. Here is the request form. August 30th is the last day to request the game.

• They do not require proof of current status
• They do not require proof of residence

They say during the matching process that they may ask for either or both of these items. I submitted a matching request on Friday and indicated that I have British Airways Silver status (which happens to be true). I provided my address as a well-known hotel in the UK. On Tuesday morning I received an email confirming that I would receive the match:

I requested this purely as a test. I do not need SAS EuroBonus Elite status.

• It’s SkyTeam Elite Plus, but I already have that through Air France KLM Flying Blue, where I’m a Gold member.
• And SkyTeam Elite Plus doesn’t get you as much as comparable statuses with Star Alliance and Oneworld. It only gives you lounge access on international routes – not domestic flights on Delta (where I already have lounge access through Amex Platinum).

I don’t plan on using this status, I was just curious if the NINJA loan equivalent of a status match is real. It is. Please use this information responsibly.

• So who is being cheated more, SAS or United?
• But even that is probably wrong, because the incompetence that creates these vulnerabilities is actually their own fault.

Earlier this month, I wrote about how United’s status matching system was being scammed. MileagePlus stopped verifying the authenticity of credentials. They stopped verifying the authenticity of people who get status. Then I reported on the $20 Marriott Platinum status.

The optimal level of fraud is not zero. The measures that would have to be taken to eliminate all fraud would render the programs useless. But some of the fraud routes are just super obvious, and the optimal level of fraud is certainly not 100%.

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