Hey.

I tried googling, and sadly i'm still confused.

I have finally decided to start doing the FF thing, and after a couple of long flights with Asiana I have 37,000 miles.

Im going be taking a transpacific flight in about 6 months and thus would like to get bumped up to 40,000 miles to become platinum.

If I took a flight on United or any star alliance member flight would that would that add miles to me getting elevated member status or would the miles only help me for a future mile redemption award.

IE if I take a 4,000 mile flight on United and use my FF asiana number, will I then become platinum for Asiana?

FYI I do not have good credit and would not like to sign up for a credit card.

thanks, and im sorry if this is in the wrong forum. I saw no newbie section and I really did try searching/googling to figure out my simple and probably asked a million times question.