Whose lifetime? The children or the airline or the freq flyer program?
If they were flying a lot in business or first class in say 2 years, then aiming for lifetime status may be viable. (I think Kiwiflyer has done this) Otherwise not worth considering
Originally Posted by
Malarchy
.. I'm a little too old to be starting on the miles journey but my children are not. They're about to earn over 10000 Emirates miles on a one-way flight if I sign them up.
10,000 flight miles is not necessarily 10,000 freq flyer miles/points. Economy fares often only earn 50% or 25% or even nil ff miles, depending on the airline, booking class & ffp.
Not all flights on a airline earn status if credited to a partner ffps. EK flights do not earn QF status with the QF ffp, but do earn some(reduced) QF ff points.
As for crediting the flights look at the airlines who are ff partners with EK. Freq flyer partners are usually reciprocal. Look at those to see if joining one makes sense and if you could credit the EK 10,000 mile flights to it as a partner. QF, AS and others are EK ff partners.
Originally Posted by
LondonElite
I think of all the major airlines in Asia Pacific, only QF and NH have a lifetime programme.
Joining QF in the hope of getting lifetime status in a few decades would mean forgoing far better benefits on another ffp for next few decades. QF has high award costs and very high award surcharges