{"id":25911,"date":"2025-12-01T22:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=25911"},"modified":"2025-12-01T22:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:14:15","slug":"royal-jordanian-oneworld-status-match-some-hotel-status-accepted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2025\/12\/01\/royal-jordanian-oneworld-status-match-some-hotel-status-accepted\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Jordanian (Oneworld) status match, some hotel status accepted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2025\/11\/25\/royal-air-maroc-status-match-offer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">A week ago I wrote about Royal Air Maroc\u2019s status match offer<\/a>, and now their Oneworld comrade Royal Jordanian has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/statusmatch-rj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">a special limited-time status match offer<\/a> too.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/royal-jordanian-status-match.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"242\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/royal-jordanian-status-match.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/royal-jordanian-status-match.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/royal-jordanian-status-match-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Their status match has already become a long-running schema, but the details change from time to time. The special promotion is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Apply by December 8<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Accepts certain hotel elite tiers for a match to <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-amber-color\">Gold <\/mark><\/strong>(Oneworld Sapphire)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Application fee: $199<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Residency restrictions apply<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Pay special attention to the residency requirement: they accept residents of the UK, France, Germany, Spain and other European countries, as well as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and other Middle Eastern countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hotel status requirements are fairly low, the list being:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Accor: Platinum and above<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hilton: Diamond<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hyatt: Globalist<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IHG: Platinum and above<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marriott: Platinum and above<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>IHG does stick out a bit, as their Platinum is far weaker than the equivalent tiers from the other four groups. Even if you currently have no IHG status, you can pay $225 to join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/ihg-ambassador-en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">InterContinental Ambassador<\/a> and get an instant upgrade to Platinum, and then you\u2019re eligible for this match.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/ihg-royal-ambassador.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"382\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/ihg-royal-ambassador.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/ihg-royal-ambassador.png 600w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/ihg-royal-ambassador-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Opportunities to match airline elite status using hotel status are rare. The last time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2024\/08\/09\/royal-jordanian-oneworld-status-match-and-hotel-tiers-are-accepted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Royal Jordanian ran something similar was in August 2024<\/a>. Although this round is $50 more expensive, the value is still solid. Oneworld\u2019s key members include BA, Finnair, Iberia, Qatar Airways, Cathay, Japan Airlines and American. <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Sapphire <\/mark><\/strong>benefits are very generous, including free seat selection, priority check-in and boarding, extra baggage allowance, and access to business class lounges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two things to note:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>RJ\u2019s website requires both first and last names to be at least three letters; you can bypass this on the mobile site by inserting a space.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some airlines, such as Cathay, are now cracking down on using different membership numbers for mileage accrual and for enjoying elite benefits.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>All in all, although it requires a fee, this promotion is quite good value if you can actually use the benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I wrote about Royal Air Maroc\u2019s status match offer, and now their Oneworld comrade Royal Jordanian has a special limited-time status match offer&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-25911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royal-jordanian","tag-status-match"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25914,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25911\/revisions\/25914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}