Originally Posted by
Stan1980
My outbound flight is an IB flight number operated by AA.
My inbound flight is an BA flight number operated by AA.
Both flights are also marketed as FI flight number (but not published as such on my ticket)
So
I think I can only credit all flights to either only IB/BB/AA, not Finnair? Is that what you're saying?
No. No & No. As posts above you can credit the flights to any Oneworld airline freq flyer program.
That the flights also have Finnair AY codeshare numbers means nothing for you.
Originally Posted by
Stan1980
So I am travelling on IB & BA flight numbers, operated by AA metal, but also in conjunction with Finnair flight numbers.
Finnair would give me most miles, like double than IB/BA.
Residing in Amsterdam, Finnair could be good for me for award travel towards Asia. But am I right that Finnair charges insanely high amount of miles for Award tickets to Asia?
What is the fare booking class?
FF miles/points/avois are not equal to earn or burn. Frequent miles in a ff program that you can use are worth more than ff miles in an orphan ffp you will never use, even in the earning rate is better.
10,000 frequent flyer miles in 1 ffp may get you a longer award flight than 15,000 frequent flyer miles in another ffp. Each airline ffp has different rules for using (burning) those miles/points for awards and different copay/surcharge $$ fees. There are cash surcharges on award flights with some ffp’s/routes/airlines. Award surcharge can be/are different. Real taxes on award flights are the same for all airlines for the same route and class. A surcharge can trigger additional real taxes if the flight changes from a non revenue flight to a revenue flight.
What ffp's are you a member of now?
Be mindful of expiry
Miles/Points that Do and Don't Expire. Click to open the wiki.