Act Now – Frontier Elite Gold Status For Only $40 (Offer Ends Wednesday)

KEY LINK: Frontier Status Match to up to Frontier Gold Elite status. Offer Ends Wednesday, April 30th

Hotels and airlines often offer what they call a status match program. Because these hotels and airlines are often competing for the same travelers, there is an incentive to try and peel off a competitor’s top customers. But if you think about a top-tier elite traveler who holds, say, Hyatt Globalist status, they’re probably not willing to switch to Hilton unless they also get some of the similar benefits at Hilton.

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Sometimes the status match is a direct status match, where the hotel or airline will just grant elite status right away based on your existing status level with a competitor. Other times, they’ll give out a provisional status for 90 days or so and require you to take a certain number of flights or make a certain number of stays within this period to keep your status.

Frontier Airlines elite status match 2025

Frontier Airlines has just announced that they are now matching elite status from anyone that has a Southwest Rapid Rewards account. Since it’s free to create a Southwest Rapid Rewards account, that means that this status match is open to anyone.

In order to take advantage of this Frontier Airlines status match, here the steps that you need to take:

• Note that you must already have joined Southwest Rapid Rewards before April 16th, 2025
• Sign up for Frontier Miles if you haven’t already
• Complete the elite status match form at frontierstatusmatch.com by April 30th
• Matched status lasts through December 31, 2025
• The Frontier Status Match application fee is $40 to verify and validate applications
• Members who have previously done a Status Match are eligible for this offer if they meet the criteria.
• Frontier says that it should take 24-48 hours to match the status

What is Frontier Airlines elite status worth?

Frontier has four different elite status levels (Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond), each with their own series of perks and benefits. Here are some of the key benefits of Frontier Gold Elite status.

Since Frontier typically has very low fares along with charging fees for things like seat assignments, checked or carry-on bags or priority boarding, having elite status can really make a big difference.

Should you take advantage of this Frontier Airlines elite status match?

KEY LINK: Frontier Status Match to Frontier Gold Elite status

Having an application fee is something that is unusual for a status match, but it’s probably in place to make sure that you have a bit of skin in the game and actual plans to fly on Frontier. Normally I would say that if you have the ability to take advantage of a status match that you should go for it, since there isn’t typically any downside.

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$40 is not a huge amount, and you can easily make up for that with the bag and seat fees that you could save with only one Frontier flight. For myself, Frontier elite status is the only elite status that I have ever personally had. I got Frontier top-tier Elite 100k (Diamond) status by way of a status challenge a few years ago and it was well worth it – being able to get free seat assignments and free checked bags made it worth it with just one flight as a family.

What about you? Are you going to take advantage of this Frontier Airlines elite status match? Let us know your plans in the comments.

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