Other Asian, Australian and South Pacific Frequent Flyer Programs - China Airlines - easy to use points for flights?

I am an (in)frequent flyer on China Airlines...hit and miss over the years, but have been able to accumulate lots of miles in the Dynasty program.

Anyone have experiences to share in ability to get award flights using points WITHIN Asia on China Airlines? Easy? Difficult? Tips/tricks??

I am an (in)frequent flyer on China Airlines...hit and miss over the years, but have been able to accumulate lots of miles in the Dynasty program.

Anyone have experiences to share in ability to get award flights using points WITHIN Asia on China Airlines? Easy? Difficult? Tips/tricks??

I have not had problem using points (Vs. UA) within Asia. The problem is it takes a lot of points (35,000) compared to others (UA=20,000 Taiwan-Japan for expample). I see your in OC as I am too, one trick is maybe call the Taiwan CI office than USA based one, they seem better at doing bookings and finding seats.

Mileage upgrades are the way to go!

to be honest its a real waste of miles to use them on intra asia flights

Seems to be the case with so many miles spent for such short distances. Do you have any suggestions for better ways to use the points?

Thanks for any tips.

the best deal to use china airlines miles are to upgrade. or it is also a good bargain to redeem Taipei to Dehli or Taipei-Sapporo or Taipei- Bali. Y costs 35k and C calss costs 50k. Pretty good deal because those destiatnion are quite far. But they are defined as in asia!

Not sure if this is the thread to post this, but this is the best I found. I just discovered that since my bschool years I have 28,161 Dynasty miles - not yet expiring but soon. I am not expecting to fly on Air China any time soon - any advice what I can do with these? Do any Hotel programs convert them into points? Can I transfer to NWA or Another US carrier?

Can I redeem my Dynasty Miles on NWA?

Not sure if this is the thread to post this, but this is the best I found. I just discovered that since my bschool years I have 28,161 Dynasty miles - not yet expiring but soon. I am not expecting to fly on Air China any time soon - any advice what I can do with these? Do any Hotel programs convert them into points? Can I transfer to NWA or Another US carrier?

Can I redeem my Dynasty Miles on NWA?

Not sure about NWA but DL can be redeemed. Be prepared for some teeth pulling though to get your desired flights. DL restricts CI's access to award inventory severely.

25K miles, or if you can somehow find a way to prop up another 1,900 miles from somewhere, that is worth a one segment upgrade from US-TPE.

Or you can beef up on some points getting their credit card:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=8181469&postcount=191

And just to confirm, you are referring to China Airlines and not Air China, right? ;)

Not sure about NWA but DL can be redeemed. Be prepared for some teeth pulling though to get your desired flights. DL restricts CI's access to award inventory severely.

25K miles, or if you can somehow find a way to prop up another 1,900 miles from somewhere, that is worth a one segment upgrade from US-TPE.

Or you can beef up on some points getting their credit card:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=8181469&postcount=191

And just to confirm, you are referring to China Airlines and not Air China, right? ;)

Thanks!
China Airlines, that's right. You can imagine my confusion when I flew them to HKG to find out that they were based out of TPE and had nothing to do with Mainland China.

I saw your fabulous post about LAX-PNH ^^^ the other day and remembered I had some points on the Dynasty Card. I completely forgot I had miles there and was even more surprised to find 28K. I ended up not pulling the trigger on that flight, though it was very tempting.

I have a NWA flight later next week, so I will put the miles into the Dynasty and will have 32K miles, enough for an upgrade or a free flight. Though I am not sure which one will be more valuable - my bet would be a lot of people would be looking to upgrade their Oct/Nov runs to PNH. Thanks for the advice!

Thanks!
China Airlines, that's right. You can imagine my confusion when I flew them to HKG to find out that they were based out of TPE and had nothing to do with Mainland China.

I saw your fabulous post about LAX-PNH ^^^ the other day and remembered I had some points on the Dynasty Card. I completely forgot I had miles there and was even more surprised to find 28K. I ended up not pulling the trigger on that flight, though it was very tempting.

I have a NWA flight later next week, so I will put the miles into the Dynasty and will have 32K miles, enough for an upgrade or a free flight. Though I am not sure which one will be more valuable - my bet would be a lot of people would be looking to upgrade their Oct/Nov runs to PNH. Thanks for the advice!

If you are interested in parlaying that into a SWU on UA, which you may or may not want/need, it isn't out of the realm of possibility to find someone over @ CC to trade for your 30K miles.

Please note I am not saying it is worth a SWU or 30K on some other airline (I'm not trying to arbitrate the value of those miles), just that, as you mentioned, given the upgrade interest as a result of the PNH deal, you may have some more interest with CI miles than normal. This is assuming you can have access to CC in time to make that work to your advantage.

Also, I think if you have a long haul flight that you can upgrade, it would be worth more to exchange for that than pulling teeth w/ CI/DL/NW on getting a free domestic award ticket. It really is too much work (unless you are looking @ CI for intra-Asia flights, which should be much easier).

Good luck!