Oneworld mileage award
#1
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Oneworld mileage award
I want to just make sure that my information is correct for the Oneworld based mileage award. If one were to fly from Dallas to Capetown with *no* stopovers along the way, and flew something like DFW-MIA-MAD-JNB-CPT (to satisfy the three carrier rule), my understanding is that it would be calculated as DFW-JNB, rather than point to point. Is this correct?
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Darren:
I want to just make sure that my information is correct for the Oneworld based mileage award. If one were to fly from Dallas to Capetown with *no* stopovers along the way, and flew something like DFW-MIA-MAD-JNB-CPT (to satisfy the three carrier rule), my understanding is that it would be calculated as DFW-JNB, rather than point to point. Is this correct?</font>
I want to just make sure that my information is correct for the Oneworld based mileage award. If one were to fly from Dallas to Capetown with *no* stopovers along the way, and flew something like DFW-MIA-MAD-JNB-CPT (to satisfy the three carrier rule), my understanding is that it would be calculated as DFW-JNB, rather than point to point. Is this correct?</font>
10.4.4 The following conditions govern the redemption of Points for Qantas Flight Awards:
(a) No more than one departure from the country or city of origin and/or residence.
(b) Failure to board the first booked sector of an Award itinerary (no-show) will result in the recalculation of Points required for the entire itinerary. The point of origin will default to the first port where travel actually commenced and any additional Points required will be debited from the Member's Account.
I suppose this is to prevent someone from booking DFW-ANC-MIA-LHR using the DFW-LHR mileage and actually flying ANC-LHR. Presumably all the Oneworld carriers have this rule for the Oneworld awards.
#3
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I've always thought it's only AA that ignores transit cities in computing the sum of miles required for oneworld awards. CX's AsaiMiles and BA's Executive Club agents both told me that they don't do it. I hope I am wrong about BA and CX (not AA )
#4
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I can only relate my experiences and they are that lesser miles are needed if no stopovers are taken. Last year I flew bwi-dub-lhr-lun-jnb-lhr-muc-mad-opo-mad-mia-ord-buf-ord-dca all under 20K air miles(for the award). If you add those up point to point, that's a lot more than 20K air miles. Two weeks from today I fly dca-bos-snn-lhr-jnb-cpt using a oneworld award valid for 4k-9k air miles. A stopover (>24 hours) in london would have put my award in the next category. As far as I know, the reservation agent does not do the calculation of the air miles being flown, the 'computer' determines this. When are you headed off to S. Africa?
#7
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DRAT!! Looks like I will miss meeting anyone enroute. I leave on 17-Apr from Washington arriving Capetown on 19-Apr. Start my RTW from Capetown on 22-Apr. This phase of my RTW is:
22-Apr CPT-LHR-IST
26-APR IST-LHR
27-APR LHR-DXB-LHR
29-APR LHR-LAX-IAD
N.American segments in August, with Asia-OZ-Africa Nov/Dec.
22-Apr CPT-LHR-IST
26-APR IST-LHR
27-APR LHR-DXB-LHR
29-APR LHR-LAX-IAD
N.American segments in August, with Asia-OZ-Africa Nov/Dec.
#8
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I have a similar question in regards to OneWorld mileage award.
I'm flying from Syd-Europe roundtrip and according to the WebFlyer mileage calculator the trip should come under 10,000 miles each way. However, for some reason AAdvantage desk keeps telling me that the total mileage is in excess of 23,000 miles. Any ideas? Can I do something about it? It's a pity to throw away an extra 50,000 points for no good reason.
Also, I have a forced stopover on my return leg. Could this somehow affect the total mileage?
I'm flying from Syd-Europe roundtrip and according to the WebFlyer mileage calculator the trip should come under 10,000 miles each way. However, for some reason AAdvantage desk keeps telling me that the total mileage is in excess of 23,000 miles. Any ideas? Can I do something about it? It's a pity to throw away an extra 50,000 points for no good reason.
Also, I have a forced stopover on my return leg. Could this somehow affect the total mileage?
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Spider:
Also, I have a forced stopover on my return leg. Could this somehow affect the total mileage?</font>
Also, I have a forced stopover on my return leg. Could this somehow affect the total mileage?</font>
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by hillrider:
Probably. SYD-LON is 10555 miles on a single-number flight. But if you fly via LAX with a change in flight numbers, then you're doing 12951 miles. So it all depends on the routing.</font>
Probably. SYD-LON is 10555 miles on a single-number flight. But if you fly via LAX with a change in flight numbers, then you're doing 12951 miles. So it all depends on the routing.</font>
[This message has been edited by Spider (edited 04-04-2002).]
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Spider:
Also, I have a forced stopover on my return leg. Could this somehow affect the total mileage?</font>
Also, I have a forced stopover on my return leg. Could this somehow affect the total mileage?</font>
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Spider:
I asked AA today about this stopover thing and they told me that even if I manage to get from HKG-SYD directly then it will still cost me the same miles. How strange!</font>
I asked AA today about this stopover thing and they told me that even if I manage to get from HKG-SYD directly then it will still cost me the same miles. How strange!</font>
I can understand the various airlines having differences in their own awards, but different ways to calculate the Oneworld awards? Why bother calling them Oneworld????
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Spider:
I asked AA today about this stopover thing and they told me that even if I manage to get from HKG-SYD directly then it will still cost me the same miles. How strange!</font>
I asked AA today about this stopover thing and they told me that even if I manage to get from HKG-SYD directly then it will still cost me the same miles. How strange!</font>
So flying BOS-LHR-HKG-SYD, as long as I don't stay over more than 24 hours in LHR or HKG, I get charged the BOS-SYD mileage. But if I spend a couple of days in LHR, I'd be charged mileage for BOS-LHR, LHR-SYD, and SYD-BOS.