Originally Posted by
luv2fly4free
helping a friend here...
If you were based in southeast Asia and fly lots of short Garuda flights (paid/revenue tickets) within the region, which award program(s) would provide the best award/upgrade/redemption possibilities? Most of these tickets would be for
low fare class economy seats. Would Garuda's own program yield the best overall options or would another program like Flying Blue or another Skyteam airline's program be the best place to earn miles for flying Garuda? Also, would elite status be achieved faster in another alliance partner's program than in Garuda's own program? Would the elite status level of alliance partners transfer over to the comparable level of recognition on Garuda as members of their own award scheme?
Thanks in advance for any general guidelines you can suggest.
for moderator - same thread here (sorry) - didn't know best place for this??:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...-airlines-470/
How low you are talking? If he flies V/H/S/G/E/U/X/O/Z/L, these will earn nothing even with GarudaMiles. The minimum class is Q/T to earn 25% miles and most of the time this is not cheap.
Just to give some idea. SIN-CGK-SIN on V class cost SGD280. The cheapest Q class is at SGD 370.
Now there is promotion of S-class for SGD175.
But the good thing about GA, all the flights will earn sectors will count toward the elite tiers.
I think none of the cheap fare earn anything on other ST. I stand to be corrected though.