MilesBuzz! - Any program that allows pooling of family miles

Planning a family trip to ny - europe 8 persons and having hard time dealing with all those useless miles that many will gather as they probably will not travel for a long time. I thought I read somewhere that some programs allow a pooling of miles. (maybe I was dreaming) Currently I am aa plat and flights are very expensive so I am not committed to AA for this trip. It would be great that since I am writing the check if it would help, but since it doesnt I will look for other flights.
Tried search but doesnt seem to be working.

BA has program were you can setup "Household" account:

From BA website:

As an Executive Club member you can invite up to 6 people to join a Household Account.
Our Household Account enables you to pool your BA Miles with up to 6 other members of your household, so that you can enjoy the membership benefits of the Executive Club collectively.
Please note you can only pool together your BA Miles and NOT your Tier Points, as members of a Household Account.

All members applying to set up or become part of a Household Account must permanently reside at the same residential address.
Business addresses are not permitted for Household Accounts.
Family members of any age can join the Executive Club as part of a Household Account.
Any member of the Household Account who is aged 18 years or over, can redeem the BA Miles collected.
Please note: Any BA Miles collected by a member of a Household Account can only be redeemed by members of the same Household Account and not by other members outside of that specific Account.

im pretty sure asiana has something some kind of family account too, you have to fill out some form and send it to them. since its part of star alliance, i dont know if non-asiana flights are elgible, but its worth looking into!

Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) allows you to transfer hotel points between family members at the same address (and you can change your address too) ;)

SPG points are quire valuable,in and of themselves. They can also be converted to most airline programs at 1:1.25 ratio. ^

Qantas allows no-fee transfers to another account if U tell their Website that the transferee is your First Cousin or nearer relative. ;)

AA, UA, CO, AC & DL allow U to transfer to anyone upon payment of an outrageous cash fee > half the value of the darn miles. Not worth it unless a friend has a few K useless miles of an amount that puts U over the top for overseas First/ Biz.

What happens if a one family member is just short a few thousand miles for an award, but the other family member is has more than enough for one award, then will any of the carriers redeem two award tickets?

i.e.,
Family member A has 95K miles
Family member b has 85K miles

They would both like to get a 90K business award ticket, traveling on the same PNR.

ANA and BA both have household-type accounts.

Emirates' Skywards runs a "family bonus" program. You earn 20% of the miles flown by other designated members of your family. Useful when relatives travel infrequently.

Aloha Airlines allows pooling of miles between family members. It's known as the Ohana (aka Family in English) Plan: http://www.alohaair.com/OhanaPlan.php

What happens if a one family member is just short a few thousand miles for an award, but the other family member is has more than enough for one award, then will any of the carriers redeem two award tickets?

i.e.,
Family member A has 95K miles
Family member b has 85K miles

They would both like to get a 90K business award ticket, traveling on the same PNR.

Many programs allow transfers for a fee.

Many programs allow transfers for a fee.

Qatar Airways.
I think you can have 8 or 9 family members in family account. They just announced partenership with United and they also partner with Virgin, Lufthansa and ANA. You can fly United, Lufthansa or Virgin to europe and bank all miles in your account. You can't redeem miles on UAL yet but charts should be coming out early next year.

It was a hidden perk of the former AF Frequence Plus. For their very loyal customers (the best Rouge ones), AF allowed to pool the miles from the different members of the family if a family trip on award tickets was planned.

I have never tried with Flying Blue though. But one thing is predictible, you will need to be a super Platinum to do this.

if i remember right, korean air's program allows family... at least that's what they told us when we signed up...

Hawaiian Air allows you to pool miles with friends and family up to 10 times in a calender year if you have one of their cc. Not sure if they are affiliated with anyone flying to Europe though.

KOREAN airlines allows pooling

Hawaiian Air allows you to pool miles with friends and family up to 10 times in a calender year if you have one of their cc. Not sure if they are affiliated with anyone flying to Europe though.
Probably not important to the OP, but you can redeem HawaiianMiles for Virgin Atlantic flights.

We took advantage of Japan Airlines's family pooling plan a number of years ago. I don't know whether the program is still alive but it should be easy to find it out. It did charge us an annual fee of $30.

Pretty sure Air India allows pooling of miles between family members

Probably not important to the OP, but you can redeem HawaiianMiles for Virgin Atlantic flights.Also on Alaska and Northwest.

Planning a family trip to ny - europe 8 persons and having hard time dealing with all those useless miles that many will gather as they probably will not travel for a long time. I thought I read somewhere that some programs allow a pooling of miles. (maybe I was dreaming) Currently I am aa plat and flights are very expensive so I am not committed to AA for this trip. It would be great that since I am writing the check if it would help, but since it doesnt I will look for other flights.
Tried search but doesnt seem to be working.

Eos Airlines' brand new FFB, Club 48 (there are 48 passengers on the plane), allows pooling of up to 10 members.
However, the 8 JFK-STN round trip tickets will set you back by at least US$25,600... :)

KOREAN airlines allows pooling
:) ^ thats correct u can pool in upto ieght members on qatar airways and they are partners with AA all the best ;)

:) ^ thats correct u can pool in upto ieght members on qatar airways and they are partners with AA all the best ;)

You are correct on pooling for 8 people on Qatar but where did you get the info about them being partner with AA? They are not. Thye recently did sign with United though.

Asiana (OZ) on *A also allows pooling of miles.

The Middle East's newest program, Oman Air Sindbad, allows pooling of 8 immediate family members; these include "your spouse, siblings, children, parents, stepparents, grandparents and grandchildren".

Virgin's latest membership guide (warning large PDF) (http://www.virgin-atlantic.com/tridion/images/flyingclub_guidebook_tcm4-144716.pdf) indicates that Gold members can set up family transfers in two ways:

1. A supplementary Silver account for one member of the household with miles pooled with those of the Gold account holder (not sure if this allows you to link another Virgin Atlantic account that already exists).

2. A 'family' account which allows you to earn points as the Gold holder for the travel of up to 3 individuals between 2 and 17 years of age in your household.

Jal has a family account too.

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Etihad recently launched their FFP, Etihad Guest.
It allows the pooling of miles earned by up to 8 family members.
http://www.etihadairways.com/etihadairways/global/en/guestrecognition/visitor/FamilyMembership.htm

I wonder if US-based airlines will ever offer mile pooling.

Pretty sure Air India allows pooling of miles between family members


Air India allows pooling of miles between spouses. There is no pooling of family miles.

Club Tiare (TN) allows pooling and household a la BA.
Its called Club Tiare Fetii which im a proud member of. (but now that you can accrue on AA, ill most likely kiss it goodbye)

what about hotel points
can i pool hilton points into a family account or transfer from spouse to spouse free of charge??

It seems that Royal Air Maroc's FFP also allows pooling now
http://www.royalairmaroc.com/ENG/Navigation_New.asp?Rub=04&LRub=&SRub=11&LSRub=Tawassoul%20Program

What happens if a one family member is just short a few thousand miles for an award, but the other family member is has more than enough for one award, then will any of the carriers redeem two award tickets?

i.e.,
Family member A has 95K miles
Family member b has 85K miles

They would both like to get a 90K business award ticket, traveling on the same PNR.

some airlines let you pay a fee to transfer miles. AA will sometimes reserve tickets on the premise that the use is GOING to soon get what they need, but it is something that is based on an individual case. It is thusly best to always have your accounts up to or as close to an award level that you think you may use so that when you need to use it, you have the miles. My wife has 58k AA miles. I have several hundred thousand. We may take a 60k RT trip so it would be great to use her miles for her ticket but since she will not have 2more k miles by the time we want to go, I have to use mine. I have them though so it is ok.

M&M from LH have a family program in following countries:

United Arab Emirates
Bahrain
Jordan
Oman
Pakistan
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Lebanon
Iran
Egypt


Here is the link:
http://www.lufthansa.com/online/portal/lh/eg/nonav/local?nodeid=1905951&l=en

Not sure if this has been asnwered elsewhere in the thread, but Qantas allows you to transfer to family members, up to a quite-respectable yearly maximum. I don't think that fees are involved. Many AA & BA fares can accrue QF miles (but generally not at AA rates), so you should be able to get something out of it. Joining QF is free for non-Australian residents.