Redeem miles from past flights.
 

Hello,

I am doing a trip around the world with oneworld explorer ticket. I book the tickets in december 2013 and I am traveling since april 2014. Since then I took a lot of flights but I don't have any frequent flyer account. I still have one flight at the end of november.

I would like to know if there is a way to collect miles from the past flights? I know that British Airways only allow users without accounts to redeem miles on flight done at maximum 30 days before the registration. Is there any company that would be more generous on this subject?

Thanks

Welcome to FT
Redeem is when you use miles. You want to claim/earn freq flyer miles

Retro credit of flights to a FFP varies by airline. For many you need to be a signed up member at the date of the flight. However US Airways (at as April 11 2014) allows you credit miles from flights taken 6 months before the date join US dividend miles ffp. US Airways ffp will merge into AA ffp, and is a good ffp for many people

Some information here but may not be up to date

There are several recent threads on this topic, which I will try to find. Some are
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/infor...alliances.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/infor...rn-points.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/star-...ill-claim.html

Other threads that may interest you
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/infor...help-here.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...help-here.html

Thanks a lot for your answer! I will try on US Airways.

Ok so I claim my miles on US Airways and it worked for most of the flights. However, for two of my flights, I have the following messages:

CLASS BOOKED IS INVALID FOR CARRIER
and
031-CODESHARE NOT VALID FOR MILEAGE ACCRUAL

All the flights were on the same explorer ticket. The two flights that were refused are on the same company, the same class and the same day than flights that were accepted.

Do you have any idea why they have been refused?

It would help if you provided some more information such as the dates, route, fare class and flight numbers.

The first flight was:
05/17/14 - Hong Kong to Sydney - flight Cathay Pacific CX505
HKG SYD 4131 Y
CLASS BOOKED IS INVALID FOR CARRIER

The second:
05/20/14 - Sydney to Auckland - flight Quantas Airways QF141
SYD AKL 7417 Y
031-CODESHARE NOT VALID FOR MILEAGE ACCRUAL

But the flight I did the same day was accepted:
05/20/14 - Auckland to Papeete - flight Quantas Airways QF3815
AKL PPT 3815 L

Hope it helps.

Firstly, there is no 'u' in Qantas.
Have you typed this information out or copied it from somewhere as it does not seem to line up properly?

QF3815 is a codeshare operated by Air Tahiti and so would not be eligible for earning on US Airways, so the 031-Codeshare not valid error would match this.

CX505 is NRT-HKG not HKG-SYD. What flight number was your HKG-SYD flight booked as?

What is the fare class of all the bookings?

I typed it from the my explorer ticket flight schedule. And indeed there is no 'u' in Qantas. :)

In my US Airways account it is written that I earned 1272 miles for the flight QF3815. The error is linked to the flight QF141 SYD-AKL.

You are right, I also did the flight NRT-HKG but did not received any information yet about this flight. The flight HKG-SYD was CX101.

All the flight were on economy class.

But the fare booking class will not be Y, but another letter. Y is the economy cabin. Many CX discounted economy fares do not earn miles as this link http://www.usairways.com/en-US/divid...ayPacific.html

It would seem that is no always showing the actual fare bucket.

Since this is a LONEx then I suspect L class.

For the CX flights - L does not earn with Dividend Miles.

As for the codeshare reference, for all intents and purposes QF141 is a Qantas flight - however it is operated by "Jetconnect" which is a NZ subsidiary owned by Qantas. Travel on this should still be valid for earn as it is not a codeshare. (As an example, it's just like traveling on a a US flight number on an aircraft operated by Envoy, Air Wisconsin, Piedmont Airlines, PSA, Republic, SkyWest, Trans States or Mesa Airlines.)
http://www.usairways.com/en-US/divid...asAirways.html

As piemur2000 went to Tahiti it may have been a Global explorer, if all flight on the same ticket. More allowable airlines with the GLOBx[?] tickets
http://www.oneworld.com/flights/roun...obal-explorer/

Even if a GLOBx then I still suspect L class.