Based in Korea. How useful is Asia Miles vs Kris Flyer?
Apr 25, 2019, 12:30 am
#1
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Join Date: Apr 2019
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Based in Korea. How useful is Asia Miles vs Kris Flyer?
Will be spending more time in Korea in the future. Currently using Kris Flyer and Asia Miles. If you had to pick between the two, which of these programs would be more useful for travel throughout Asia, Europe and to the US from Seoul?
I tried looking at redemption options on SQ website. Was met with flight unavailable in red pretty much all the time. Must be me not knowing what to enter? Asia Miles looked ok to Europe and US. But I don't know if this is a rip off with partner airlines or not.
I need to use my card points and these two airline programs are transfer partners. Prefer this than redeeming for shopping vouchers.
Thanks
I tried looking at redemption options on SQ website. Was met with flight unavailable in red pretty much all the time. Must be me not knowing what to enter? Asia Miles looked ok to Europe and US. But I don't know if this is a rip off with partner airlines or not.
I need to use my card points and these two airline programs are transfer partners. Prefer this than redeeming for shopping vouchers.
Thanks
Apr 25, 2019, 10:02 am
#2
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: HKG
Programs: CX Diamond / OWE
Posts: 277
Will be spending more time in Korea in the future. Currently using Kris Flyer and Asia Miles. If you had to pick between the two, which of these programs would be more useful for travel throughout Asia, Europe and to the US from Seoul?
I tried looking at redemption options on SQ website. Was met with flight unavailable in red pretty much all the time. Must be me not knowing what to enter? Asia Miles looked ok to Europe and US. But I don't know if this is a rip off with partner airlines or not.
I tried looking at redemption options on SQ website. Was met with flight unavailable in red pretty much all the time. Must be me not knowing what to enter? Asia Miles looked ok to Europe and US. But I don't know if this is a rip off with partner airlines or not.
Apr 25, 2019, 4:39 pm
#3
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Actually, SQ is a better choice regardless of destinations.
Korea has 2 major airlines - KE and OZ, which are allied with ST and *A respectively. On that basis, I would say your chance of finding an award seat is better with SQ, especially given all the major cities nearby have heavy *A presence.
(AFAICT - SQ's IT isn't really perfect. So you may have to call for an award reservation.)
Korea has 2 major airlines - KE and OZ, which are allied with ST and *A respectively. On that basis, I would say your chance of finding an award seat is better with SQ, especially given all the major cities nearby have heavy *A presence.
(AFAICT - SQ's IT isn't really perfect. So you may have to call for an award reservation.)
Apr 25, 2019, 10:05 pm
#4
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: BA Gold, JGC Sapphire, OZ Diamond, AF Silver, CX GR, Marriott Lifetime SL
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BTW will you stay there long enough and keep travel frequent enough? You may want to consider OZ to accumulate for lifetime *G and KE for lifetime SkyPriority (500K miles to attain). However be warned both program has bad redemption rate.
Apr 25, 2019, 10:39 pm
#5
Join Date: May 2017
Location: SIN
Programs: AS MVPG75k, AA Plat
Posts: 741
Both OZ and KE have good redemption rates when compared with SQ KF and CX AM.
Apr 26, 2019, 2:50 am
#6
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Apr 26, 2019, 8:49 am
#7
Join Date: May 2017
Location: SIN
Programs: AS MVPG75k, AA Plat
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KE Skypass (own metal) China/Japan - NA First 160k RT (off peak)
KE Skypass (partner) Asia 2 - Europe First 150k RT, Business 115k RT
KE Skypass (partner) NA - Europe First 100k RT, Business 80k RT <-- this is actually common knowledge because the blogs keep harping about it, surprised you don't know
OZ Northeast Asia - NA First 160k RT, Business 120k RT
OZ Southeast Asia - NA, Central America First 180k RT, Business 135k RT
OZ Southeast Asia - Europe First 150k RT, Business 115k RT
OZ Europe - NA, Central America, Hawaii First 100k RT, Business 80k RT
OZ Europe - Middle East First 80k RT, Business 60k RT
Apr 27, 2019, 12:09 am
#8
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: MPC,CA,MU,AF
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Cross posting is against FT rules. I am closing this thread. Members may continue discussion at: Based in Korea. How useful is Kris Flyer vs Asia Miles?.
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