America West FlightFund (Discontinued Program) - mileage earning options?

Any chance of earning miles on any airline other than HP for a HP flight? HP is pricing out really low for an upcoming trip, but I don't want to endure a connection, a 3 hour PHX-SEA flight on a CRJ and end up earning no useful miles.

I don't want to sign up for Flight Fund because it makes things too complicated. I know HP terminated its agreement w/CO but was wondering if they have an agreement w/anyone else.

When flying America West and/or America West Express, you may credit your flights to the following programs instead of FlightFund:

- British Airways Executive Club
- Hawaiian Airlines HawaiianMiles
- Virgin Atlantic Flying Club

If you were flying America West or America West Express operated flights between the United States and Mexico/Canada/Alaska as well as Northwest coded flights between Phoenix/Las Vegas and Los Angeles/San Francisco when connecting to Northwest Airlines flights to/from Asia, you could also have the option of Northwest Airlines WorldPerks.

TransWorldOne, would we get any bonus in the programs you listed based on our HP FF elite level? It would be great if I can fly HP and accrue to BA with my normal HP bonus http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

As a matter of fact, are you aware of any mileage program that credits elite bonus to its own program when taking a flight on a partner's metal? And whether it makes any difference between an actual code share vs a partner's flight number?

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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Jet2K:
TransWorldOne, would we get any bonus in the programs you listed based on our HP FF elite level? It would be great if I can fly HP and accrue to BA with my normal HP bonus</font>

No-- definitely no bonus based on FlightFund Elite status for flying HP and crediting to a partner program.

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">As a matter of fact, are you aware of any mileage program that credits elite bonus to its own program when taking a flight on a partner's metal? And whether it makes any difference between an actual code share vs a partner's flight number? </font>

When flying a Continental partner (codeshare or not) and crediting to OnePass, you almost always receive the Elite bonus and q-miles.

Thanks for the feedback TransWorldOne.

Too bad OnePass miles seem to only be usable for rulebuster awards based on comments on other boards http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Jet2K:
Thanks for the feedback TransWorldOne.

Too bad OnePass miles seem to only be usable for rulebuster awards based on comments on other boards http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif</font>

If it is coach awards you are looking for, they are fairly easy to get. Business class awards can be near impossible to confirm more than thirty days beyond your date of departure. Non-Elite members have a significantly more difficult time redeeming awards.

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