Originally Posted by
jackcarr
BA Silver/One World Sapphire here. Most of my travel is done on BA as I'm based about 30 min drive from LHR.
However my fiancee and I are flying from Copenhagen to Christchurch and back in December in J (D class fare), and I'd like to maximise by some distance the biggest amount of money I've ever spent on a cash fare.
Is there a Star Alliance programme I could credit the flights to and get an equivalent to One World Sapphire in one go? I believe I'd get KrisFlyer/Star Alliance Silver, both of which don't appear to have any real benefits.
Or am I best-off crediting to Alaska Airlines which I believe would give me a fairly decent amount of miles which can be used on loads of different airlines, including BA, but I would effectively give up the Elite Miles (tier point equivalents)?
Most of my travel for 2020 is booked other than one long haul that we haven't made our mind up on yet and I'm carrier-agnostic currently.
Hoping for 1 trip to get mid level status is being extremely optimistic: not realistic.
After this trip then what? What will Star Alliance status (low or medium) do for you?
Some ffp's require flights on the ffp airline.
https://www.wheretocredit.com/sq/d
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Great Circle Mapper
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Be mindful of expiry
Miles/Points that Do and Don't Expire. Click to open the wiki.
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 short to medium term.