Hi Folks,

I normally had the impression that Skywards is still much better than M&M because of ease of earning, recognition and redemption options.. Now, EK has the best intl timetable from my base location and I was exploring whether its worth to make a move to EK from * Alliance..

I did a cursory check for mileage earning and redemption levels for a round trip from India to Europe and this is wht i find..
Earnings
In EK
In Saver Fare -- 5000 skyward miles + 5k tier miles
In Flex -- 10000 skyward + 10k tier

In LH
Semi Restricted - approx 10k miles depending on location
Flexible - approx 15k miles depending on location..

Redemption

EK -- Saver reward is 70k miles and flex reward is 122.5k miles..
LH -- standard is 60k miles and there can be promotions giving tickets @ 30-40K miles..

Not taking into account status bonus from the above it seems that for EK we need atleast 7 - 10 round trips in saver fare to get a saver reward whereas for LH we need from 5-7 round trips for a reward at the max ??
Am I missing something above since it confuses me as I always thot tht Skywards was much better than M&M..

P.s -- I did not check the seat buckets they hv put into the different ile earning categories and maybe that makes a big difference ??

Appreciate ur views..

thanks
Abhi