MilesBuzz! - A potentially very good way to collect lots in Australasia - esp. for Star members

Ansett New Zealand has a Scenic Standby Airpass offering unlimited standby flights for the period of time that you buy the pass for. Just think how many miles and status miles you could get with this! (Do you get them on this airline? sorry I know very little about Star!)

Prices(NZD) - Valid for travel until 30 September 2000
Travel is valid on any Ansett New Zealand (AN) service on a standby basis
only. Taxes are not included.
Unlimited travel within 10 days
NZD 599
Unlimited travel within 30 days
NZD 999

For more information, go to:
http://www.campustravel.co.uk/countries/uk/frames/fram_fares.htm

Then, scroll down and click on Ansett New Zealand's pass.

Whoops - my topic should have read - A potentially very good way to collects lots of miles in Australasia - esp. for Star Members.

to my knowledge, only Ansett Australia (and not Ansett New Zealand) is a StarAlliance member http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif.

Most "passes" do not give miles in my limited experience but I don't know about this one in particular. If they do and you can - great!

to my knowledge all Passes in Europe (LH, SK) where you buy and pay for a certain number of segments and all (Visit USA coupons, also buying 3-8/12 segments) Passes in the UA give miles. The visit-USA-pass, good on UA in N-America (including Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Hawaii) allows also upgrades (with miles, one-way-confirmable-upgrades or 500-mile-vouchers). And Ansett New Zealand is defenetly NOT a StarAlliance-partner.

[This message has been edited by Rudi (edited 09-24-1999).]

Sorry for the mix-up!

Perhaps I should have said specifically that those passes with "unlimited" travel for a specified time period (like one month) don't generally give miles, as opposed to those with a given number of prepaid segments which usually do! I don't know if the Visit USA pass allows unlimited travel within the US or not.

It is a QANTAS Frequent Flyer Program member though

Travel passes based on a coupon system CAN earn you miles. But passes which offer unlimited travel based on days do NOT.

DL has a travel pass for 30 days which you cannot earn miles on.

CX has a Asia-Pass which you do not earn miles.

Check the booking code first and then check if that code earns miles on your frequent flyer programme.

Celestar 340: Please could you post more info on the DL pass that you're referring to. I know that some years ago they had a 30 day unlimited stand-by air pass that has since been discontinued. Now, it is my understanding that they offer two types of special deals for int'l visitors to the USA:

- Visit USA (VUSA) fares that offer sometimes substantial discounts off regular individual tickets.
- The "Discover America" air pass that works with coupons just like any air pass.

If I'm wrong and they do still offer some form of stand-by pass, please post the details as I'd love to know more about it.

Thanks a lot!

AN NZ is a QF member and will allow QF tier credits. - although only 8 per flight.

BUT, AN NZ are in MASSIVE problems with their pilots. In that they shut out over 75% of their pilots and their schedules are a mess. So even though you may have unlimited travel for 30 days you may not get very far. http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

Hopefully they will sort this out soon, but it has been causing problems for the past 3-4 months, and NZ is laughing all the way to the bank.

Mark

Koru Flyer: I take it that AN Oz and AN NZ have no relation to each other since AN Oz is related to Air NZ and Star and that AN NZ is related to Qantas which is related to oneworld.

Leroy11

AN NZ was setup by AN after an offer from the NZ government for a competing carrier to NZ on the domestic market. QF was not asked because QF and NZ were code sharing across the tasman and quite friendly at that time - how things change!

Then when NZ bought 50% of AN, AN was forced to sell their NZ operations. A year or so later QF bought 18% of AN NZ and now your get FF points and tier credits.

But AN NZ are still badged the same as AN planes and still have similar uniforms, commercials, logos, blue priority stickers, golden wing clubs etc etc. All very confusing as I think AN (Oz) goldenwing members can access the clubs but I do nothink that QF club/gold/silver can? After all of the fuss at the moment they may rebadge as the previous excuse was that they wanted to keep the reputation. http://talk.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

The news today reported that AN NZ are only flying trunk routes (CHC,WLG,AKL, PMR etc), have cencelled contracts with 125 of the pilots. So things are not too good at present.

I think you can earn UA points on AN NZ but they do not count for star miles.

Mark