I’ve been an enormous fan of Southwest Airways for many years. I stay close to BWI Airport and fly Southwest for nearly all my flights. Within the final ten years, I’ve most likely flown on one other airline fewer than yearly.

Their current enterprise choices, largely pushed by the fingers of Elliott Funding Administration, have made me rethink our relationship. It’s making many individuals rethink their relationship with Southwest.

And competing airways are pouncing on the alternative.

Airways usually provide standing matching to attempt to win your enterprise. This half is just not new.

What’s new is how aggressive they’ve turn out to be and listed here are what different airways are providing.

American Airways

American Airways’s Standing Matching program, referred to as Instantaneous Standing Move, offers you complimentary matching standing for 4 months with the power to increase it till the subsequent membership yr in the event you meet all of the objectives. You’ll be able to’t have participated within the Instantaneous Standing Move program within the final two years.

Proof of standing is usually a screenshot of your Speedy Rewards account abstract exhibiting your first and final identify, standing expiration and Speedy Rewards quantity.

To increase your standing, you want to meet Loyalty Level objectives that are listed on the standing match phrases and circumstances.

• A-Record will get you AAdvantage Platinum®
• A-Record Most well-liked will get you AAdvantage Platinum Professional®

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Delta

Delta’s Standing Matching program offers you a complimentary matching standing for 90 days with the chance to increase it in the event you full the “problem.”

For a restricted time, via 9/30/2025, Southwest A-Record and A-Record Most well-liked Members can get a better Medallion Standing once they enroll.

First, you possibly can’t have enrolled within the match program anytime in 2022 via 2025. Subsequent, you have to to be a SkyMiles Member for not less than 30 days and flown not less than one flight increased than Primary Financial system within the final yr. You will want proof of standing, which could be digital or bodily, which features a assertion that exhibits you earned it and what you wanted to do to get it.

• A-Record will get you Gold Medallion Standing
• A-Record Most well-liked will get you Platinum Medallion Standing

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United

The United MileagePlus Premier standing match problem is again, as of January 2025, however they didn’t change something because of Southwest’s bulletins. With the standing match, you get complimentary standing for 120 days after you full an Activating Flight.

It’s important to full the flight inside 90 days of submitting your documentation after which you’re going to get the match for 120 days. There are further methods to rely an activating flight however I go away that you just to you in the event you pursue this.

You’ll be able to hold the standing by matching flight and level accumulation objectives, additionally listed on the matching web page.

You’ll be able to’t do that in the event you’ve completed the match program inside the final 5 years.

• A-Record will get you Premier Silver
• A-Record Most well-liked will get you Premier Gold

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Frontier Airways

Frontier Airways isn’t providing a standing match however they’re providing perks for anybody flying with them on flights departing Could twenty eighth via August 18th. Could twenty eighth is clearly a dig at Southwest, as flights booked after that date will now not get their two baggage checked free.

Frontier Airways is giving everybody a free checked bag plus the Financial system Bundle, which incorporates seat choice and no change/cancel charges.