Oh?

Can this not be done over the over the phone? I suppose another thing to consider is whether your have to call overseas numbers to book award flights, etc.

That could be a quite major inconvenience if the way you fly TK flights is to originate on a TK partner carrier and then connect to TK fligths.

In addition, I heard a rumor that they're learning from Diamond Club and are planning to outsource all ticket offices to India. In the future, you will have to visit the IVC (Indian Visiting Center) to get an award ticket on TK. One of the longest threads in the TK forum will in the future be "The TK IVC Shenanigans Thread."
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For UK based people, also worth considering that it possible to earn miles on many *A programmes via the SPG Amex credit card - this applies for a lot of programmes that do not have a UK based card and that are not part of Amex rewards. SPG transfers can be made to NZ, ANA, OZ, M&M, SQ, TG, UA, US among others.

Plus at present they are offering a 20K points sign up bonus, which translates to 25K miles in most programmes (5K bonus if you transfer 20K miles)!

Does this change any minds as to choice of programme?

Thanks very much for this fantastic tip! This widens the scope surely!

The one way redemptions with allowing a stopover is really good in BD. Do any other star schemes offer that? I'd want a credit card to earn miles to, so that spg one mentioned above could work...

So what's the concensus given this nugget?

I don't actually fly a lot (have a very young family) but i do spend a lot (run a business.)

Don't really care about status, just want good value easy to find redemtions.

I'm thinking US airways, the birds out of MAN will now have flat beds, and burn rate doesn't seem bad, plus low taxes.

Or (puts on his helmet here, to shield himself) AAdvantage?? Partner award table doesn't seem too bad.

US seems to me as well as the best programme if interested only in redemptions in J rather than status.

The only real downside is the fact that they do not have one-way awards (at half the cost of a return), always handy when mixing FF programmes for redemptions.

I wouldn't go with the FFP of an airline which is bAAnkrupt.

I think too that one-way awards would make US even better. Maybe they will come one time!?

Which Star alliance card now!???
 

With the imminent changes I am wondering which way to go...:td: I wish Diamond club was here to stay......

Anyway, is there any other club that has anywhere near similar way of burning miles in terms of the fantastic way you could burn with DC???

Cf: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/bmi-d...ce-dc-you.html

For those considering AC/AP for the low *G threshold of 35k, consider no more - they've just introduced lots of new tiers, and *G now requires 50k (and still, I believe, 10k or 5 segments on AC metal). Lots of rather unhappy Elites over on the AC board ...

A shame for Mrs NWIFlyer and me, because that was our plan ... probably OZ or A3 now, I imagine. (Which at least will allow me to keep GC as a moderator :))

Having to do X miles/Y segments on the host metal is getting increasingly common with FFPs it seems, it's kind of fair enough too I guess but no doubt will be unpopular. Something to bear in mind when selecting an alternative to DC though, even if your FFP of choice doesn't do it right now.

They can't really go though can they?? Going to the wall is simply not an option. Then think of the thousands of US million miler's, ExPlats etc, some other airline would snap AA up just for that customer base, surely.