Originally Posted by
jonasfischer
Thanks! The Citibank offer sounds really good, but I wouldn't have the Tesco thing then, which gives me 2.4 miles for every £ spent... (for every 250 Clubcard points you get 600 miles).
Maybe I should stick with Qantas if BA and AA are so crap on Iberia... as far as I can remember I got full miles for my latest Iberia trip DUS-MAD-SPC------TFN-MAD-DUS and return which was slightly more than 4000 miles and with the cheapest Iberia Ticket you could get (around £170 p.P. return !!!). How many miles would I get for flying cheapest economy on BA with the Qantas FF scheme? Haven't done so since I got the card.
Also, is booking award flights more miles-consuming via Qantas than with the BA Exec for example? I booked some domestic flights down under, but that's long ago and I remember they were quite cheap, dunno how it looks like with European awards.
Last question (sorry
): What about the transferring bit? Is it possible to transfer the miles?
Cheerio,
Jonas.
AFAIK, AA is the only OW airline you can transfer miles
out of. If you want to transfer miles into a OW airline (from hotel programs, for example), then there are lots of possibilities, but which specific ones are available may depend on where you're based as well as which programs you have points in.
How many years do you anticipate traveling on OW and earning miles, and how many total miles do you think you'll earn? The reason I ask is that AA is the only OW airline where you can earn status through cumulative miles (but you need to accumulate a lot). 1 million total lifetime AA miles from
any and all sources gives you Lifetime Gold status, 2 million gives you Lifetime Platinum status (OW Sapphire).
Also, at some OW airlines (incl AA and BA) your miles never expire as long as you have yearly activity (which can be either earning through partners such as credit card, hotel, rental car, etc, or redeeming), but others especially in the Pacific your miles expire after a few years with no way to avoid that, so you better be burning them almost as fast as you earn them.