Originally Posted by
Romadoc
My only experience thusfar has been as a Sky Team member. As such, it was simple to request transfer to a partner airline and, space allowing, one could book award travel.
Are you sure this is what you have done? There is a difference between transferring points to another program and using points on another airline.
When you transfer points the points would be taken out of your CO account and deposited into an Air France Flying Blue account for example. This is not possible in Star Alliance and I think this is also not possible in Skyteam.
I think what you are talking about is that you used your CO points on AF for example. No points have been transfered to another account in this case. You are just using them for another airline but CO.
This is also how it works in Star Alliance. You can not transfer points to another *A program but will be able to use your CO points for a LH flight. How many points you need will be determined by the CO award chart so don't look it up at Miles & More.
Originally Posted by
Romadoc
Our last use was ATL-GVA on AF in F class. Cost was 100K/per. Is there no similar policy using *A? If this is true, than I will be limited to CO as the other members of *A have no arrangement with either AMEX or Marriott.
Again, the policy in Star Alliance is the same. You will be able to use your CO points for a LX ticket. Will they keep the very low threshold of 100k points for F? I don't know but it would surprise me.
Regarding Amex: It is not that Amex doesn't allow transfers to Star Alliance. In many countries this is happening. It is only that Amex USA doesn't allow transfer to UA. So if CO joins Star Alliance the CO/Amex relationship shouldn't be effected by it.