So a slightly odd problem I have.

Due to where I live and the travel I do I am a heavy user of Star Alliance airlines and fairly regular with OneWorld.

However, due to some travel recently in Asia and scheduling of airlines I would have liked to fly, I ended up on a China Southern flight in F class. Apart from some flights about a year ago on Garuda (which I didn't bother crediting due to them not being in any alliance and it being unlikely I'll fly with them regularly) it is the first time in recent history I've flown on a SkyTeam airline.

Despite it being unlikely my travel patterns will change in a major way in the next year or two, I'm loathe to not credit my CZ F flight anywhere.

Given my pattern of flying I figured the best place to park the miles was with Delta.

But here's the slightly complicating factor. In my rush to get off the plane I appear to have lost/left my ticket behind.

I contacted China Southern to get the ticket number hoping that would be enough, but to no avail. When I went to the Delta website to retrocredit I discovered that retrocrediting flights from partner airlines requires you to post/fax in your ticket. Certainly not something I'm used to with the comparatively 21st century NZ and QF programs.

So I tried to credit to Flying Blue where I also have an account, from an unsuccessful attempt to get a status match. Same problem.

So my question is, is there a program I can credit this flight to that doesn't require me to have the actual ticket? I have all the relevant details: flight number, seat number, ticket number, cities etc, just not the ticket.

Preference is obviously for a program where either the points don't expire (like Delta) or they can be kept active by semi-regular activity (like QF's program keeping all points valid with activity every 18 months). I should be able to do this with the occasional flight with China Southern, AF/KLM, Garuda or Vietnam Airlines. It will also need to be a program that allows crediting from before sign-up. The flight was about a week ago.

Thanks, and apologies for the long post.