garymon Welcome to FT
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garymon
I am very new to all of this and am working my way through the stickies. But I thought before I go too deep I should get feedback as to what is reasonable for me to delve into and what isn't. Details below but my main concern is that I fly internationally a couple times a year to the Philippines, but that's it. Expensive but not frequent.
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(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in an airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
(AA Executive Platinum, UA 1K, LAN Comodoro, etc)
Reply: I opened FFP recently with EVA, ANA and KA. EVA has 8k earned and I just bought new tickets but those miles are not earned yet.
I also have the Alaska Miles Plan CC with 80k earned (never actually used any points from this card).
Eva (BR) and Air Nippon Airways (NH) are both star alliance and partners. So if an eligible fare, you can fly on one airline and earn ff miles to the other airlines ffp.
KA = Korean Air (KE)?
https://www.wheretocredit.com/korean-air/y
KA is the airline code for Cathay Dragon
Alaska (AS) is a good ffp and has a lot of partners. But sadly over the last few years some good airlines are no longer partners (DL KLM/AF and AA for USA domestic flights).
https://www.wheretocredit.com/alaska-airlines/y
Korean (KE) is an AS partner.
Having multiple ffp’s with low balances is never a good idea. You may never get enough ff miles/points to be of use before they expire. Adding frequent miles in a ff program that you can use, are worth more than ff miles in an orphan ffp that you will never use even, if the earning rate is nominally
better. FFP’s are for the medium to long term. However at times it makes sense to have a ff membership with an airline in another alliance. (e.g. Oneworld & Star)
Be mindful of expiry
Miles/Points that Do and Don't Expire. Click to open the wiki.