Originally Posted by
dvs7310
It's the same in China and equally annoying to the AA/BA problem mentioned above when redeeming Star Alliance (assuming SkyTeam is still the same as well, it was back when CO was in SkyTeam)
On the other hand, you can earn plenty of miles in some cases when you buy domestic (China or US) tickets as those F tickets can be had fairly cheap.
Spend them then on international routings..