Originally Posted by
trooper
1. No program that I am aware of gives FF miles for Award Travel.
2. A3 is a *A airline so you cannot credit even miles earning flights from AA, which is oneworld.
3. Unless you have a same day *A flight you will not be able to access *A lounges.
Sorry to sound so negative.. but REALLY? Expecting to earn miles on award flights.. on a different alliance?
i just got sign up bonus points from credit card with alaska points that i intend on using for reward flights, so i wont be flying AS metal just whatever comes to toronto (mostly AA) to take me to south america and il use colombia as an example because its going to lead to next post. Anyways so theres no way whatsoever for me to get miles for flying from YYZ-BOG on AA on any FFP when using my alaska airline miles?
Originally Posted by
hagan73
So why not join AA's program...?
Check out their status challenge, pretty easy to get gold with 5,000 EQP or platinum with 10,000 EQP.
im going to be flying on award but if status is relatively easy i dont mind shelling out $ to do segments but its going to have to be in economy.. but to put into perspective how many YYZ - MIA is that going to take if i fly only on AA?
Originally Posted by
bhomburg
To answer your question - you are oblivious
. Oneworld might not be as large as *, btu it definitely doesn't suck. I was a * guy for a decade and a half before switching a few years ago and don't regret the move. In fact, haven't looked back even once.
There is indeed no A3 equivalent in oneworld. The road to status is roughly equally long in all oneworld programs. South America' s Latam goup airlines LAN and TAM have FFPs that are kilometer-based, and the thresholds for status are a bit lower than on miles-based programs (150,000 kms for Emerald status instead of 100,000 miles in miles-based programs which equals 161,000 kms).
If you already have status on *A with A3 or can get it easily and quickly, I'd look at having it matched by an oneworld airline. Check
www.statusmatcher.com/ for details.
very grateful for status matcher, but il have to some digging to see whether a) i can even get miles for an award flight using Alaska Miles on A3 for *Gold. When it comes to LAN and TAM, only LAN is partnered with AS, and I guess i could choose them over AA but havent decided yet, let alone figured out if its even possible to get miles with award flights. if worst case scenario is its not, maybe il pay cash but to get a perspective of how many runs from primarily YYZ-MIA it would take would be nice (pretty good cash price from yyz-mia but $ price skyrockets when say if i paid cash second segment from MIA to BOG)