Crediting Miles to a Different FF Program After the Flights
Aug 28, 2017, 11:53 am
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Crediting Miles to a Different FF Program After the Flights
Hello,
I understand this may be a stupid question, and I accept any impending criticism from the community
I flew a AV business class flight from LAX-BOG in May, and credited the flight to my Avianca Lifemiles account. I wish to switch my *A program to TK, but I was curious if there is anyway to credit that booking to TK. I do not care if they remove the elite/redeemable miles from my AV account.
I understand this is unlikely, but I wanted to make sure.
Thanks in advance for the help
I understand this may be a stupid question, and I accept any impending criticism from the community
I flew a AV business class flight from LAX-BOG in May, and credited the flight to my Avianca Lifemiles account. I wish to switch my *A program to TK, but I was curious if there is anyway to credit that booking to TK. I do not care if they remove the elite/redeemable miles from my AV account.
I understand this is unlikely, but I wanted to make sure.
Thanks in advance for the help
Aug 28, 2017, 12:39 pm
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You can ask AV to reverse the credit and then retrocredit to TK, but this is highly unlikely to happen unless you have strong evidence that you wanted to credit to TK in the first place (say, a BP with your TK number on it).
If you don't ask you'll never know, but expect a resounding "no".
If you don't ask you'll never know, but expect a resounding "no".
Aug 29, 2017, 8:31 pm
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You can ask AV to reverse the credit and then retrocredit to TK, but this is highly unlikely to happen unless you have strong evidence that you wanted to credit to TK in the first place (say, a BP with your TK number on it).
If you don't ask you'll never know, but expect a resounding "no".
If you don't ask you'll never know, but expect a resounding "no".
Also would there be any chance in filing a missing miles claim with TK and submitting the booking info?
Aug 30, 2017, 5:37 am
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You should certainly expect a big "NO" from TK (if you would ever get a reply). With TK anything just slightly extraordinary is very difficult to accomplish - also due to communication issues.
Let it go. Not worth the hassle.
Let it go. Not worth the hassle.
Aug 31, 2017, 8:30 am
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Aug 31, 2017, 10:41 am
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Sep 3, 2017, 5:52 am
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Sep 29, 2017, 4:02 am
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Would Turkish be able to tell if you had credited the miles elsewhere? Judging from the consumer-facing IT, systems are not often connected despite alliance claims of seamless service.
Sep 29, 2017, 1:21 pm
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Nowadays this check is supposed to be fairly instant across *A airlines & their FFPs.
Sep 30, 2017, 7:44 pm
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Yes. When you submit a mileage request the FFP contacts the operating airline for payment, the operating airline should then identify they have already credited miles elsewhere and decline payment, which then results in the FFP decline the mileage request.
Nowadays this check is supposed to be fairly instant across *A airlines & their FFPs.
Nowadays this check is supposed to be fairly instant across *A airlines & their FFPs.