Flying one airline, posting miles to another
 

Is there a place where this is already consolidated?

For instance, if I fly Northwest, I could post miles to NW or CO?

If I fly Alaska, I can post the miles to Alaska or AA?

Thanks!

if you fly any of the Star-Alliance carriers you can let post your miles to any of the Star-Alliance-partners Frequent-Flier programs (you can even use upgrades from one program and credit the flight to another one).

Not sure what you mean by "consolidated," but yes, you can post to another FF program. Just make sure your boarding pass has the proper FF number on it. For example, I recently posted AA miles to AS. In the past, for some reason, I've posted CO miles to HP.

For instance, if you're on AA but want to post to AS, your boarding pass should say "AS #########" for the FF number.

I guess by "consolidated" I meant has this been discussed before.

I may have to fly USAir or CO soon (company allows limited choosing of airline), but would rather have the miles post to a different airline (AA, U, maybe NW).

Check the website of the carrier where you want your miles posted and read the fine print concerning airline partner mileage credit restrictions.

The rules concerning the earning of mileage credit when flying on another carrier may vary greatly depending on numerous factors. They may range from whether you can or cannot earn mileage to begin with, to the type of mileage (status, elite bonus, plain partner), applicable fares, applicable routes, operating carrier, codeshares, etc.

Very interesting. Yes, you may get miles. I got United Miles by flying Lufthansa several times. However, I will not become Elite with United, at least not with this LH-miles.
Question: What is whith the on-line booking bonus (1,000 miles or so)? For example: I book an AA flight on-line, get 1,000 miles. At check in I ask to change the FF-# to another partner airline. Do I get the 1,000 miles?

LH miles credited to UA count as YTD status qualifying miles on UA so, in theory, you need never fly UA to become elite on UA.

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A flight on CO can be credited to NW. BUT,if you hold CO elite status, give your CO #, to let EAU upgrade run. Then, change FF #'s prior to flight.

So how about USAir - any options there? I think I remember seeing a partnership with NW on their website... but nothing mentioned on nwa.com.

USAir members can earn mileage on NW only when they fly to Asia

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95% of my flying is on SK and I credit 100% of my miles into AC Aeroplan without a problem.

Exactly. Many airlines form partnerships just to cover certain routes that they do not cover themselves but do not allow miles to credit on competing routes, not to mention fare classes. For that reason, I always keep the boarding passes just in case the miles do not credit on the partner. Not only do the rules vary, but often they change, and just in case the miles do not credit to the partner, you can always credit them to the airline you were flying. Always make sure you don't lose the miles, that would be terrible....

I do all my ticketing on AS on the web, getting my 1000 mile web bonus. After I make my status for the year, still ticket on the web, but then have the gate agent change my record to reflect my AA account. I haven't run into a problem yet.

I have yet to try doing web check in with my alaska account and then changing my boarding pass to reflect my AA acount. That seems too complicated.

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