Originally Posted by
raznz
airnz metal means the operating airline is NZ, ie an NZ plane.
sq metal means the operating airline is SQ, ie. an SQ plane
SQ Plane with an NZ flight number just means codeshare, and is not NZ metal that qualifies for elite.
You'll earn at the Partner airlines rate, which is usually 120SP (non-metal) in J
Sorry to be dumb, I'm still quite new to this and all the terminology confuses me so much and has me second guessing.
So are you saying that an 086xxxx ticket that shows an NZ flight number but is operated by SQ (*A partner airline) earn NON-METAL status points?
It's so confusing to those of us that don't know the ins and outs. The website refers to the "metal" requirement in plain English as:
(at least half on Air New Zealand operated flights, qualifying partner airline flights, or Star Alliance qualifying flights)
Do you really need to look up pages and pages to work out which flights are qualifying and which are not? How does Joe Public know that the flight above isn't a "Star Alliance qualifying flight"?