Originally Posted by
RipCityFlyer
Not to take things off topic, but this made me chuckle. You've got Skyteam, Oneworld, and Skyteam connecting to Star Alliance. Hope you've got all of your FF#'s in order.
Maybe alliance wasn't the right word for the TA to use, but I still think he did a relatively good job. While MH is in Oneworld, they have earning/burning agreements with both Delta and the AF/KL Flying Blue program. So everything but the AC segment can be credited to a single program.
And depending on the length of the AC segment, it was probably a good deal to give up those miles in exchange for the savings.
Of course, you have to be careful because consolidator / bulk fares can not only exempted from the normal published fares rules but also from earning miles at all.