oneworld - Any idea about this year's anniversery bonus on oneworld carriers!

Hi there!

I am planning 3/4 continent RTW ticket starting May this year. Checking the flyertalk it appears that there is some kind of bonus on the anniversery once in a while, like the 55,555 miles last year on staralliance and also 100K some time ago on oneworld.

Looking at the last year star alliance bonus it restricts the travel to may-june or some short period to qualify for the bonus. What do you think of similar bonuses for this year. When is the anniversery for oneworld?

Appreciate input from people who followed previous years for these bonuses or successfully completed those trips. I would like to try for as many oneworld partners as possible this year with the oneworld ticket.


Thanks

No idea about a 2003 bonus. Hope there is one. I did a 100,000-mile OW bonus a few years ago for using 6 OW carriers. It was fun, and I managed without an ATW ticket. (Who knew CX had a MAN-CDG flight!)
With status bonuses got over 250,000 miles for the flights.

Will stay tuned and post if I see anything.

[This message has been edited by MiamiPrep (edited 01-08-2003).]

OneWorld had the 5 carriers = 100,000 miles bonus in 1999 and the 5 continents = 100,000 miles bonus in 2000. Both were in the fall. No bonus promotions in 2001 or 2002.
http://www.oneworldalliance.com/pressroom/facts/details.cfm?dID=233

It would be great if such a bonus were offered. But I fear it won't be. For Oneworld, it must come down to the usual cost-benefit analysis.

The anticipated benefit must involve getting particularly heavy full-fare travellers to switch from non-OW carriers to OW, at least temporarily and ideally permanently (once they experience CX, etc.). Any other major benefits? Filler for the various OW carriers' newsletters, I guess!

But then there's the cost of providing the bonus to those who do mileage runs or out-of-the-way routings to qualify, without giving OW carriers any particular revenue. And an additional cost in designing the promotion, coordinating it using already-reduced staffs at the member airlines, responding to customer inquiries ("where are my miles?"), etc.

From the absence of this bonus in the past two years, I can't help but fear that OW has already decided it's not worth the trouble. Of course if Star did this a lot, OW might have to match anyway.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by jerry a. laska:
OneWorld had the 5 carriers = 100,000 miles bonus in 1999 and the 5 continents = 100,000 miles bonus in 2000. Both were in the fall. No bonus promotions in 2001 or 2002.</font>

Just a nit-pick for history buffs: the 2000 promo required 6 continents for 100,000 miles (5 gave 50,000), flown June 15 - Sept. 15.