Need advice: what ff program to credit these flights
 

My husband is flying the following itinerary and I'm at a loss on where we should credit his flight miles (App. 20,500).
11/17/02 SFO-ORD flight#:NW metal:NW
ORD-AMS NW KLM
AMS-NBO NW KLM
12/20/02 NBO-DAR BA KenyaAirlines
01/20/03 DAR-AMS NW KLM
AMS-SFO NW KLM

We try to fly AA and UA preferentially. He doesn't have a Worldperks account. I'm thinking maybe going with Alaska credit, but any feedback, esp. any info on bonus offers would be appreciated. -Kim

Alaska or WorldPerks. You could credit the BA flight to AA (can you?).

I'm not sure if the BA flight# could be credited to AA since it's on Kenya Airlines metal (not an AA partner).

you could consider Alaska for the NWA flights and anything ONE WORLD for the others. I do not know who all the partners are but in the end, if you have miles on both Alaska and AA, then later, when you reach award levels, you can use the awards, say, all on AA flights. BUT I too do not know what programs Kenya flights will go to.

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Your flights are just over 20500 miles total...you'll end up just 4500 miles of silver on NW and of a free domestic trip.

The only other option is Alaska, but I dont believe you will earn any miles for the Kenya flight.

also consider how many miles you could get from nwa under the present 200,000 miles mania promotion

Thanks for the feedback. I don't think that he'll get many miles from NW miles mania promotion- ticket booked through travel agent at discount coach fare. Since the flights are 2 months apart in 2 calender years, I'm assuming that only about 10,000 miles will count towards NW status for each qualifying year. Will they count towards status on Alaska, or just extra mileage?