Originally Posted by
pandaperth
If you don't have status in your FF programme (and so earn status bonus miles) then I think the miles you do earn on a DONE3 would not be enough to cover Asia-SWP return and NthAm-SthAm return[/INDENT]
And also note that most FF programs require a minimum number of flights on the airline operating the program for tier progression. For example, to progress to higher tier from the Bronze base tier on Qantas (from memory, could be wrong about the exact number) you need 4 flights on Qantas.