Tomma

Mwenenzi

Tomma Welcome to FT

What are your objectives with a ffp?
What do use the LATAM ff miles/points for?
Other than the Brazil LATAM flights what other flights do you take?
Could you earn ff miles/points/avios from non flying activities? [shopping, hotels, rental cars, etc] Or only AMEX?

IB and/or BAEC would be OK for a Eu based flyer
You can join both and subject to t&c's you transfer avios between the 2 ffp's. Each has good points.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/brit...tive-club-446/
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/iber...?daysprune=100

IB/BA Avios can be used for reward flights on LATAM and other OW airlines, subject to availability
Many BAEC avios rewards have high cash surcharges. Using IB avios for the same reward flights can have lesser cash surcharges

An airline in an alliance will not status match from another airline in the same alliance.
It is possible sometimes to use the benefits of status from 1 ffp and credit the flights to another ffp. But is not fool proof or at times easy swapping freq flyer numbers.

Look at the Oneworld master ffp thread:- Deciding on a Oneworld Frequent Flyer Program? Help is here

Be mindful of expiry Miles/Points that Do and Don't Expire. Click to open the wiki.

nelsinho

nutsbr

I think it really depends on what you value more: status, earning points, or redeeming points.

If you value status more: then find the OW that gives more points to LATAM points towards status.
If you value earning points to use with LATAM more (given they fly to where you want to use): stick to LATAM, unless you are going to fly another OW member more than LATAM.
If you value redeeming points more: choose the airline that makes it easier for you to redeem the flights you need. It has been quite hard to book award flights with other airlines lately, so it doesn't make much sense to earn points on LATAM if you want to mostly redeem tickets in Asia, for instance.

If you give them a call they will be able to fix that for you. My mother-in-law had the same issue and they fixed it over phone. Pain in the neck, but it worked out and had to do it only once.

What do you mean? You'd still be collecting points when flying LATAM or any other OW airline.

If you value status, that sucks. If you value earning and redeeming points, it sucks less. But I don't think other airlines will make your life much easier either. And as a rule of thumb, you always make more points in the program of the airline operating the flight.

This is very weird. If you flew 5-6 times from Europe to Brasil last year you should have been at the very least Platinum now if flying economy. Even this year, with all the recent changes on how to earn status and with the dollar-based calculation, if you spend about US$ 3000 in fares in the year (which should be very easy if you are really flying 5-6 times from Europe to Brazil) you would qualify to be Platinum. If you make about US$ 6500 spend in fares you would qualify for Black, which is not impossible given you flying behaviour.

As a final thought, given the flying-pattern you shared (5-6 times/year Europe to Brazil, and plans to keep flying LATAM even if changing the frequent flyer program) I would stick to LATAM Fidelidade and Multiplus unless you plan to fly more on another OW carrier. If you change to BAEC or IB Plus, I would start flying them on the trips to Brasil to earn more points there than flying LATAM.

SenSCL

[QUOTE Even this year, with all the recent changes on how to earn status and with the dollar-based calculation [...] If you make about US$ 6500 spend in fares you would qualify for Black, .[/QUOTE]

Sorry, if I am going OT a bit, but can you elaborate on how and where you will be reaching LATAM Black by spending USD 6,500.00 THIS year (2019)?

nutsbr

Good catch, I posted wrong info. I got confused with the damn Gold Plus status now. I looked at the 2nd and 3rd categories on their website without looking at the names. The correct now is to look at the 3rd and 4th categories for Platinum and Black.

US$ 5000 minimum fare spend for Platinum, US$ 16.666 minimum fare spend for Black, in both cases for international flights, not domestic. Platinum is still attainable for OP given the 5-6 yearly roundtrips from Europe to Brasil.