Hi all,

A work colleague is flying with his family (4 persons all up) from MEL to Europe in a few weeks.

1) No current FF membership
2) They fly very rarely
3) Would like to (if possible) use a scheme where they could obtain award flights within Australia or to New Zealand

Their itin is:

MEL-SIN-ZRH-SIN-MEL on SQ for 3 of them (booked in, I believe, W class via SQ website).

MEL-BKK-ZRH, WAW-ZRH-BKK-MEL on LX flight numbers for the other 1 (I have misplaced this itin, but its close). It is economy class.

I have looked around and think I have the right recommendation for them, but would appreciate some confirmation, or otherwise being pointed in the right direction.

They would earn ~20300 points/miles for the 3, a few more for the 1 flying separately.

I figured that if they joined the UA program, then they could, with >20,000 points/miles, be able to redeem flights MEL-AKL-MEL on a (codeshare) UA flight number, on NZ metal.

This would use up their 20K points/miles nicely.

Do I have this correct? Even if I do, is there a better way to go about this?

TIA
Chris.