Jun 4, 2013, 8:59 am
Last edit by: NWIFlyer
Brief summary of posting times.
Airlines
Hotels
On-board duty free shopping on A3 flights
Greek Airport Duty-Free shops
Heathrow Rewards
Car Rental
Airlines
- Adria Airways: 5 days.
- Aegean Airlines: 0 - 4 days (if upgrade voucher used, 0-17 days).
- Air Canada: 2 - 5 days.
- Air China: 3 - 9 days.
- Air India: 1 day.
- Air New Zealand: 2 - 4 days.
- All Nippon Airways: 1- 7 days.
- Asiana Airlines: 5 days.
- Austrian Airlines: 1 - 9 working days
- Avianca (Brazil): 1 - 10 days
- Brussels Airlines: 8 days
- Copa: 2-3 days
- Croatia Airlines: 2 days
- egyptair 7 days
- Ethiopian: 1 - 5 days
- EVA Airways: 2 - 6 days
- LOT Polish Airlines: 1 - 2 days
- Lufthansa: 1 - 8 days.
- Scandinavian Airlines: 2 - 7 days (normally 2 - 3 from hubs, longer from outstations).
- Shenzhen Airlines: 3 days
- Singapore Airlines: 3 - 6 days.
- South African: 2 - 4 days
- Swiss International Air Lines: 1 - 6 days.
- TAP: 2 days
- Thai Airways: 2 - 4 days.
- Turkish Airlines: 3 - 5 days.
- United: 2 - 7 days
Hotels
- booking.com: 5 - 7 days after hotel check-out
On-board duty free shopping on A3 flights
- Around 3 weeks
Greek Airport Duty-Free shops
- 2-3 days
Heathrow Rewards
- Around 22 days
Car Rental
- hertz 2 weeks
'Normal' time for miles to post into Miles and Bonus account
Nov 1, 2018, 5:27 am
#826
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: lounge next door
Programs: *A Gold / ST Elite+ / OWS / EK G / HH Diam. / MR Tit / Hyatt GLOB / IHG Diam. / SL Jade / GHA Tit.
Posts: 1,527
Now it's really fast, maybe I was lucky, but last flights with A3, LO, LX, TK posted the next day )
Dec 19, 2018, 7:12 am
#834
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: OTP/KRK
Programs: M&M FTL, Miles+Bonus Gold
Posts: 664
I had a round trip with TAP, no miles posted but I think is worth to share my experience... The cheapest ticket from OTP to LIS for my dates was 1150EUR, discounted fare.
As you know, TP for Economy has 4 type of fares: Discounted, Basic, Classic and Flex. I didnt buy Discounted ticket but Classic because I hoped that it will give me at least 50% milrd but... nope. It seems that I got 0 miles.
After I made the booking I checked the fare (there is no way to do it before booking) and it was Oxxxxx, so booking class O, however I read here on FT that TAP might translate this O booking class to another booking class when sent to *A partners, but no luck... I am a bit pissed of because I paid double and Ive got nothing.
Is there anything I can do in this case?
As you know, TP for Economy has 4 type of fares: Discounted, Basic, Classic and Flex. I didnt buy Discounted ticket but Classic because I hoped that it will give me at least 50% milrd but... nope. It seems that I got 0 miles.
After I made the booking I checked the fare (there is no way to do it before booking) and it was Oxxxxx, so booking class O, however I read here on FT that TAP might translate this O booking class to another booking class when sent to *A partners, but no luck... I am a bit pissed of because I paid double and Ive got nothing.
Is there anything I can do in this case?
Dec 19, 2018, 8:29 am
#837
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Rhineland-Palatinate
Programs: *A Gold (A3), HHonor Gold
Posts: 5,693
There is no question of "TAP might translate this O booking class to another booking class when sent to *A partners" in that scenario.
It is straightforward: O on TP does not earn anything, the table on Aegean website is clear.
https://en.aegeanair.com/milesandbon.../all-airlines/
It is straightforward: O on TP does not earn anything, the table on Aegean website is clear.
https://en.aegeanair.com/milesandbon.../all-airlines/
Dec 20, 2018, 3:43 am
#838
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: OTP/KRK
Programs: M&M FTL, Miles+Bonus Gold
Posts: 664
I am afraid you didnt understand me correctly... O class for Classic or Flex will be ”translated” into another booking class because these fares are way more expensive and is not ok to have a flex ticket in the same booking class as the one discounted which is 5 times cheaper... did you get it? 
Dec 20, 2018, 4:46 am
#839
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Rhineland-Palatinate
Programs: *A Gold (A3), HHonor Gold
Posts: 5,693
No it is perfectly valid to have that.
This is how the entire Lufthansa group works for example:
The above is from a booking I made yesterday, the same fare for Eco whether it is Light or Flex and same with Business, and all of them earns the same (Lufthansa metal in this example).
Increased flexibility does not necessarily means higher fare bucket.
This is how the entire Lufthansa group works for example:
The above is from a booking I made yesterday, the same fare for Eco whether it is Light or Flex and same with Business, and all of them earns the same (Lufthansa metal in this example).
Increased flexibility does not necessarily means higher fare bucket.
Dec 20, 2018, 5:04 am
#840
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: ARN
Programs: A3*G, SK*G
Posts: 336
No it is perfectly valid to have that.
This is how the entire Lufthansa group works for example:
The above is from a booking I made yesterday, the same fare for Eco whether it is Light or Flex and same with Business, and all of them earns the same (Lufthansa metal in this example).
Increased flexibility does not necessarily means higher fare bucket.
This is how the entire Lufthansa group works for example:
The above is from a booking I made yesterday, the same fare for Eco whether it is Light or Flex and same with Business, and all of them earns the same (Lufthansa metal in this example).
Increased flexibility does not necessarily means higher fare bucket.