how to maximize miles on multiple carriers
 

I am flying Montreal- Dubai on multiple carriers and I need help to max out my miles. I already have around 20k miles on US Airways and 15K on Jet Blue.
How can I do this? I used 45K miles on United last year to get to Hawaii and would like to do the same. I could fly to Hawaii on Us Airways, United or Air Canada.

Here are the carriers

Air Canada
Emirates
British Airways
Air Canada

thanks

Annick Paquet welcome to FT

Look these airline ffp's and see what other airlines are partners. FFP partners are usually reciprocal

So you are a member of US Airways (One World) and JetBlue. Any others?
Air Canada = Star Alliance
Emirates = no alliance, but a partner of Jetblue, Alaska, Qantas and others
British Airways = One World alliance and partner of AS

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/infor...help-here.html

https://trueblue.jetblue.com/web/trueblue/our-partners

Pick one program and stick with it. You will accrue more miles that way, other than that ts a waste of time and the miles will become worthless before you can use them.

I agree but I think one should also belong to enough secondary programs, such as one for each alliance or possibly Alaska, to avoid ever taking a flight that can't be credited elsewhere. Sometimes orphan miles build up and you can use them for something.

Not with the same miles, you can't. US Airways has moved from Star Alliance (with United and Air Canada) to oneworld alliance (with AA and BA). And the US Airways FFP will be disappearing in a months (being merged into the AA AAdvantage FFP).

Credit your BA flight(s) to US Airways.

Credit your Emirates flight(s) to JetBlue.

Credit your Air Canada flights to United.

But you won't be able to combine those three together unfortunately (either at the credit stage or at the redemption stage). That's the downside of booking a flight with so many different carriers without paying attention to alliances at booking time.

However, once US Airways merges with AA, they'll allow one-way awards, as United already does. So you could book one direction to Hawaii on AA and the other direction on United, assuming you have enough miles for one direction on each of those (but not enough miles for round trip on either).

thanks for your help, indeed I know that I will not be able to convert all of my miles in one program but I want to be able to at least book a one-way ticket.

Good news on the one-way awards with us airways, it was a pain having to gain enough miles for round-trip.

Not a business traveler but we do travel a lot( 5 to 6 times a year) so they do rack up fast.

Alternatively, I believe both BA and Emirates can be credited to Qantas. I have no insight into how easy it is to redeem these though.