Status Match

[Dave321]

Wow so these people finally woke up....

You can get much better advice here 

http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2013/06/17/cheat-sheet-how-to-get-airline-elite-status-match/

[shmooz]

My UA Silver is up soon and would like to match to alaska, but have not earned many miles only about 4k this year, earned the miles last yr.
 i need to send them a copy of my statement, will that be  a problem? or they will match if i'm silver even if this year there is not much mileage?