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Neiltoo Oct 10, 2012 1:10 pm
Is Oneworld membership retroactive?
 
If I book a Malaysia Airlines flight now and MH becomes a member of Oneworld before I fly (next May, so that might or might not happen :rolleyes:) would I get tier points, miles etc? Or would the fact that the ticket was purchased pre Oneworld membership mean that it wasn't eligible.

jerry a. laska Oct 10, 2012 2:17 pm
Originally Posted by Neiltoo (Post 19472247)
If I book a Malaysia Airlines flight now and MH becomes a member of Oneworld before I fly (next May, so that might or might not happen :rolleyes:) would I get tier points, miles etc? Or would the fact that the ticket was purchased pre Oneworld membership mean that it wasn't eligible.
Typically it depends upon when your flight is as to whether you will receive credit and the rules of the program you are crediting to.

ernestnywang Oct 11, 2012 1:16 am
Originally Posted by Neiltoo (Post 19472247)
If I book a Malaysia Airlines flight now and MH becomes a member of Oneworld before I fly (next May, so that might or might not happen :rolleyes:) would I get tier points, miles etc? Or would the fact that the ticket was purchased pre Oneworld membership mean that it wasn't eligible.
The departure date matters, not the purchase date. The same holds true when a partner airline withdraws from an FFP.

Neiltoo Oct 11, 2012 1:24 am
Thank you for the replies. I should have said that it would be BA that I want to credit to. I couldn't find anything in the BAEC TCs that seemed relevant.

AddictedTraveller Oct 17, 2012 3:24 am
I've got the same question really flying with MH SIN-KUL-LHR on the 22nd December, then back on the 12th Jan and hoping that I can get the points credited.

irishguy28 Oct 17, 2012 4:40 am
You just might be out of luck for your outbound flights, but your return should net you miles in any oneworld program, as the latest news appears to indicate a join date of late December, or more plausibly perhaps 1 January 2013.

http://www.ausbt.com.au/malaysia-air...ld-in-december

That said, this post in another thread indicates a rumour about 12.12.12

Originally Posted by dato811 (Post 19510611)
If any of you do visit airliners.net there's a post in there (which I think is quite credible) that states "from the source inside MH, the joining date will be on 12.12.12 and making it the 12th OW member." So if at all it holds true, then in less than 8 weeks we will be able to start using OW status on MH.

AddictedTraveller Oct 18, 2012 5:16 am
Oh well at least 1 way is better than nothing!


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