Originally Posted by
nzchick
Total insanity to credit this way when NZ don't even fly domestically in the USA (I can understand on their own routes eg New Zealand to London/Asia etc, but if they don't fly it what is the rationale?)
I find the whole approach ridiculous. If they even applied your suggestion, flying AKL-SIN on SQ would result in the lower earning rate because it's "Asia on another carrier", even though NZ don't serve SIN any more with their own metal. If you even bought the NZ fare AKL-HKG-SIN until recently you would have been penalised.
I would rather that they took, e.g. the QF or UA approach and award "bonus miles" on NZ flights/codes and kept all other bookings at the current NZ earning rate. That provides an incentive to fly NZ codes where you can, but you're not penalised for being so outrageous as travelling to somewhere NZ don't fly!