Originally Posted by
wandering_persian
I have a United Mileage plus account and I was quite satisfied with award redemption. I will be flying in J to North America and back in a few month (December) on TK and as I have become Oneworld sapphire, I can request for a TK status match to *A Gold.
But I don't know where to credit my *A miles. I want to credit my *A flights to a program that would be generous in redemption even if I don't receive the gold tier miles.
Retaining status on *A, although nice, is not my main objective.
Qatar Airways award redemption is terrible and I really don’t want to make the same mistake with *A.
For earn to burn hard and low award co payment fees hard to go past USA airline ffp’s.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...demptions.html
In the major 3 alliances award availability is nominally the same, but each ffp can have better award availability for their own freq flyers, especially if you have top level status.