BA Avios to upgrade on Finair
Sep 11, 2015 | 4:11 pm
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Sep 11, 2015 | 5:06 pm
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I would have thought that an alliance, where you earn points across all airlines, would also give you the opportunity to use across all airlines. Giving the ultimate benefit to the loyal customer who sticks to alliance member only airlines.BA allows to use avios on both AA and IB. Have not flown AY before, but would have thought it was similar.
At Staralliance, you can both earn and redeem points across all airlines within the alliance.
At Staralliance, you can both earn and redeem points across all airlines within the alliance.
Sep 11, 2015 | 6:06 pm
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I would have thought that an alliance, where you earn points across all airlines, would also give you the opportunity to use across all airlines. Giving the ultimate benefit to the loyal customer who sticks to alliance member only airlines.BA allows to use avios on both AA and IB. Have not flown AY before, but would have thought it was similar.
At Staralliance, you can both earn and redeem points across all airlines within the alliance.
At Staralliance, you can both earn and redeem points across all airlines within the alliance.
This is not and most likely has never been a benefit provided by any alliance as far as I know.
Sep 11, 2015 | 6:11 pm
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I would have thought that an alliance, where you earn points across all airlines, would also give you the opportunity to use across all airlines. Giving the ultimate benefit to the loyal customer who sticks to alliance member only airlines. BA allows to use avios on both AA and IB. Have not flown AY before, but would have thought it was similar.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/star-...-y-b-only.html
http://www.staralliance.com/en/benefits/upgrade-awards/
http://www.staralliance.com/en/benefits/how-to-upgrade/
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Sep 11, 2015 | 6:44 pm
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You're confused. You can use your BA avios to redeem for any airline in the one world alliance (IB, AA, CX...) same with star alliance, ie, you can use your United miles to redeem for a Lufthansa flight. However you cannot use your United miles to upgrade a Lufthansa economy ticket to a business class ticket. Same goes for One World.
This is not and most likely has never been a benefit provided by any alliance as far as I know.
This is not and most likely has never been a benefit provided by any alliance as far as I know.
Also as a UA 1K member I get 6 Global upgrade certificates per year which I can use to upgrade Lufthansa's flights in class Q or above
Sep 11, 2015 | 9:29 pm
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You're confused. You can use your BA avios to redeem for any airline in the one world alliance (IB, AA, CX...) same with star alliance, ie, you can use your United miles to redeem for a Lufthansa flight. However you cannot use your United miles to upgrade a Lufthansa economy ticket to a business class ticket. Same goes for One World.
This is not and most likely has never been a benefit provided by any alliance as far as I know.
This is not and most likely has never been a benefit provided by any alliance as far as I know.
Also as a UA 1K member I get 6 Global upgrade certificates per year which I can use to upgrade Lufthansa's flights in class Q or above
The OP has apparently decided what alliance benefits should be, though none of the three major alliances have a policy that one can use miles from one alliance carrier to upgrade on any other alliance carrier.
Sep 12, 2015 | 5:23 am
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There's a lot of false info in this thread. OneWorld is the only alliance that doesn't have an upgrade program. In Star Alliance you can upgrade from most programs to most member carriers but it's only for Y & B plus a few other exceptions, also can upgrade C & D to First on some carriers if I recall correctly. You can not upgrade discount fares though except with miles of that airline's own program. Skyteam upgrade program is very similar.
Sep 12, 2015 | 5:48 am
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There's a lot of false info in this thread. OneWorld is the only alliance that doesn't have an upgrade program. In Star Alliance you can upgrade from most programs to most member carriers but it's only for Y & B plus a few other exceptions, also can upgrade C & D to First on some carriers if I recall correctly. You can not upgrade discount fares though except with miles of that airline's own program. Skyteam upgrade program is very similar.
The Star Alliance upgrade program is fairly new, and fairly limited as most travelers are not flying full fare tickets.
I stand by the fact that none of the three alliances have the ability to use miles to upgrade on another carrier as a central feature of their program. Bilateral airline upgrade policies, such as the United/Lufthansa one discussed above, are more common.
Sep 14, 2015 | 4:31 pm
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But you can't do that on all Star Alliance flights. Because it's not a benefit of the alliance.
The OP has apparently decided what alliance benefits should be, though none of the three major alliances have a policy that one can use miles from one alliance carrier to upgrade on any other alliance carrier.
The OP has apparently decided what alliance benefits should be, though none of the three major alliances have a policy that one can use miles from one alliance carrier to upgrade on any other alliance carrier.
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