Originally Posted by jtalstad
This year I'm AA PLT, UA Premier, and CO Silver, so far, all earned this year. I've "wasted" miles on the other carriers because I've always taken the miles with the carrier I'm on. Right now I have 999034 miles spread across AS, AA, DL, CO, US, NW, UA, F9, and KE, along with 7 WN points. Upgrades are worth more than miles in the bank because I never seem to get to use them ("No, no flights on those days, but you can buy a ticket"
) Now I think with some time in on FT I will start to request credit on other carriers. With my current job I've had multiple territory realignments over the years. In the past I've been UA Prem. Exec, NW Gold, and AS MVP Gold. Seems like just when I make status they change my territory.
Ah
sushibear.... you beat me to it as I still am not following either.
OK jtalstad, if you took your KE, DL, CO, NW flights, and put them under one account, and you pick that, say you like NW or CO or DL or KE or whatever, just pick one. Call that your main airline. Personally I think most would pick NW or CO but that's not my call for you. You pick one. They are all skyteam airline alliance, so a NW plat would get upgraded on a CO flight faster then a CO gold would. A CO Plat would get upgraded on a NW flight faster then a NW gold, etc....
Let's say you choose CO. When you check in for the KE flight / book it you use your CO onepass number. When you check in for the DL flight / book it, use your CO onepass number. When you check in for the NW flight / book it, use your CO onepass number.
That way all your miles are going into one account. I know you said the miles don't matter but the upgrades do, but this way you get all your miles EQM's, going into one account for all four airlines so you can make Gold or Plat faster. It does no good to have status on CO and NW and DL etc... Unless you're flying 150,000 EQM's each year on both CO and NW or whatever but even then I'd still only pick one airline.
Also the miles you will get accumulated under your CO account for flying on DL or NW or whatever, you can get and use your miles on those airlines also.
So I still am not following your logic here. If you complain about being a lowly Silver on CO and not getting upgrades and want status on a SkyTeam then funnel everything to one card and you'll get it.