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oneworld airlines offer frequent flyers up to 15,000 bonus miles

September 07, 2004
http://www.oneworld.com/pressroom/re...?ObjectID=2818


oneworld, the leading global airline alliance, is offering air travellers the world over an enticing incentive to encourage them to sample more of its unrivalled international network – a bonus of up to 15,000 frequent flyer miles or points that can be redeemed for flights across the grouping's 575-destination map.



To participate, you must already be a member or enroll as a new member of any one of the eight oneworld airlines' frequent flyer programmes – American Airlines' AAdvantage, the British Airways Executive Club, Qantas Frequent Flyer, Cathay Pacific's Marco Polo Club, Iberia Plus, LAN's LANPASS, Finnair Plus or Aer Lingus' Gold Circle Club.



Then you need fly on at least three oneworld airlines, including the one with which you have registered as a frequent flyer member, between 1 October and 30 November 2004, on eligible fares. These include a number of economy/coach class fares, besides those for travel in First, Business or British Airways' World Traveller Plus.



There are minor differences in the way the promotion operates in some member airlines' frequent flyer schemes. Some require participants to register for the bonus promotion first. The size of the bonus varies too between some member airlines, because of the different structures of their individual frequent flyer schemes. For instance, members of Iberia Plus will be eligible for a 1,200 point bonus.



Full details of the bonus offer are available on each airline's frequent flyer programme website:

American Airlines
Aer Lingus
British Airways
Cathay Pacific
Finnair
Iberia
LAN
Qantas
Since oneworld was launched five years ago, members of its partner airlines' frequent flyer programmes have been able to earn miles and tier status points when they fly on eligible fares on any other airline in the alliance and redeem them across the entire grouping's network, covering 135 countries, from Australia to Zimbabwe.



So those bonus miles could help take you anywhere from Aalborg, Albuquerque or Accra to Zaragoza or Zurich or anywhere else served by the alliance's by eight member airlines and their 17 associated carriers.



oneworld Managing Partner John McCulloch said: "The bonus is just that – a bonus, in addition to the regular rewards earned for each of those flights. It's a way of highlighting to customers new and old that if their travels take them beyond their regular airline's schedules to other parts of oneworld's unrivalled international map, they'll receive the same high level of care, service, support and frequent flyer privileges from all other carriers in our group."



Besides frequent flyer awards, those privileges include tier points towards higher status frequent flyer programme membership, which in turn leads to lounge access, priority check-in and wait listing whenever you fly with any oneworld carrier anywhere in the world.

Notes
· For full details, see the frequent flyer pages in each airline's website.

· Flights must be in First, Business, British Airways World Traveller Plus, or in Economy Class with reservations made and ticketed in fare classes Y, B or H.

· Frequent flyer award flights do not qualify for the bonus. Nor do travel industry discount fares or any other travel excluded from earning miles or points.

· Each customer is eligible for one bonus. You cannot gain more than one bonus, nor earn a bonus in more than one oneworld frequent flyer programme.

· oneworld benefits are only available to passengers on scheduled flights that are both operated and marketed by a oneworld member airline or on a oneworld member airline affiliate. Marketed means there must be a oneworld airline flight number on the ticket.

· Where flights are operated by a oneworld airline, and marketed by another oneworld airline (code-share flights) the airline whose flight number is on the ticket will count towards bonus qualification, not the operating airline.

· At peak periods, access to certain lounges may be restricted due to capacity constraints. Access is available on the day of departure when the next onward flight is with a oneworld airline. Access may not apply at a limited number of lounges operated by third parties. Access is not available to AAdvantage members travelling on solely North American itineraries.

· American Airlines AAdvantage and British Airways Executive Club members can earn and redeem miles, and earn tier status credit, on all eligible flights except:

o American Airlines AAdvantage members will not earn or redeem miles or earn tier status credit on British Airways flights between the USA and Europe and vice versa.

o British Airways Executive Club members will not earn or redeem miles or earn tier status credit on American Airlines transatlantic flights.

· Each oneworld alliance airline reserves the right to change its frequent flyer programme rules, regulations, travel awards and special offers, and to end its frequent flyer programme, in accordance with its relevant frequent flyer program rules. Miles/points may be earned only on eligible purchased, fares. Awarding of the bonus is at the discretion of each frequent flyer programme.

· American Eagle, AAdvantage, AAdvantage Executive Platinum, AAdvantage Platinum and AAdvantage Gold are marks of American Airlines Inc. American Eagle is American's regional airline affiliate.

· LAN affiliate LAN ECUADOR is not a member of oneworld.

· All information contained in this document is correct at time of going to press but is subject to change without notice.

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Hmm.

11/11 BA27 J
15/11 CX717 J
17/11 QF32 J

Bingo! :)

Hmm.. it says you can't earn the bonus in more than one OW FF program? :td:

Surely you should be able to earn this bonus in (eg AA/QF) programs if using 6 different flights?

It says you can only earn the bonus once. Imagine if you do a RTW trip during this period and people ask for this bonus with the different combination of flights they took...! ;)

Ah, but for the good old days when the anniversary bonus was 100,000 miles and we could earn it in more than one program . . .

Well I guess this implies that oneworld itself will be in control of allocating the bonus rather than the individual airlines.

Individual airlines will be responsible for awarding the 15,000 miles bonus to members account. oneworld states that you can only earn the bonus in one programme as they do not want to encourage those tricky mileage runners from getting 15K bonus several times. It's just one of those scare tactics that firms use to discourage customers from engaging in dodgy practices. Trust me, there are many FFP mileage runners who would engage in dodgy practices.

It's not dodgy practices.. we're just more devoted than most :)
How could they tell if you earn the promo twice anyway if you have multiple FF accounts, especially if your FFP's are registerd at different addresses?

Anyway, some cheap fares if people are looking. :) (one-ways)
AA EZE-MVD, H-class $89
LA ZAL-ZCO, Y-class $39.93
EI SNN-DUB, Y-class $61
BA DUB-LDY, J-class $76.15

even better. SNN-DUB-LDY in Y/J is $120.96

Finnair Plus has also announced on their web page that they will give 15,000 extra Finnair Plus points. As one point equals one kilometre, AY Plus members will get less than mileage based FFP members. However the extra points will contribute to the tier points balance.

Quote from Finnair Plus:

If the conditions are that you can only earn the bonus in one program then that has to be coordinated somehow. For AA I had to register for the bonus. Assuming QF offers it and it works like past bonuses then I won't have to register for it. So, assuming I meet the requirements in both programs who is going to stop it being allocated to my AA and QF accounts?

I don't think there is anything dodgy about getting this bonus in more than program at all. You still have to meet the requirements for each program (like many of us did for the 100K bonus), so how is that dodgy?

15k miles isnt all that much in most OW programs. On AA, it will earn you a coach flight....almost. On BA, a coach flight...almost. QF, coach flight....almost. LA, not even close to a coach flight. IB, who the heck knows. AY, I can't read Hungarian. EI, are they still even in the alliance? JL, aren't they in the alliance yet?

I seriously hope that the gurus that be in the OW alliance have far more impt things to worry about then putting together what I think would be a pretty complicated system that would cross check every FF account in the oneworld alliance for those who *might* get more than one of the bonuii from PAYING MONEY to the individual carriers. It seems to me more that if they find out due to you being egregious then they will smack you on the nose with a newspaper and take them away. But who knows. Stranger things haven't not happened.

Dodgy bonuses
 

All that I managed in the old days was the all 6 continents on 3 separate 1W cards in about 22 days. Ah for the abuse of xONE6! That month I got enought for 2 First RTWs and an economy.

Well as I have BA, QF, CX, LA, AA booked already then I won't have to bother with AY, IB and EI then.

And 15000 miles does exactly what for a First class return SYD to LON? No a lot.

I think you score better in IB than the others. With 1200 points in IB you can "purchase" 2 return puente aereos between MAD and BCN, or 2 return economy tickets to/from several cities in Spain.

With AY you would need 20k points for a domestic ticket. 15,000 points will get you an upgrade in nordic routes. (info in English at www.finnair.com, International site, Hungarian only on the Hungarian site :) ).

so where is the list of codeshare flights in europe and how do i book it?

ie QF flights 3601 3602 lhr-fra? i assume there are other, more desirable codeshares avail...

I think you'll find that the QF intra-Europe codeshare flights are either near-impossible to book or priced at a level which doesn't make sense, unless you're combining them with a long-haul BA/QF ticket or a RTW product.

For those based in the UK without travel plans during the qualifying period I would suggest three weekends away using BA, AY and IB. Or you could be slightly cleverer about it to reduce the number of trips you need to take: eg a BA return to ARN or HEL, plus an AY return ex either of those; alternatively BA to MAD + a return MAD-LIS with IB.

so as a QF in london i have no chance , unless i go to SIN? etc

QF and the offer
 

Hi,

Just checked with potential Mrs S and she thinks that all the short haul QFs ex-LON can only be booked in association with a long haul ticket.

If you were really wanting to take part either (i) do the BA EC thing and get a freebie (ii) if you were really naughty... book a MAN to LHR to SIN all on QF, get to LHR and then offload yourself and go for a refund. No as far as I am aware that breaks the odd rule but I doubt that the International Court of Airline Fare Abusers would argue too much. Might end up stiffing you for a full fare on the MAN to LHR, which at the end of the day, costs the same for a single as the value of the miles.

Buy a 1W RTW, fly a QF codeshare sector on BA and then hold the rest of the ticket for later?

Try a QF codeshare in the US?

Is it really so that operating airline is insignificant?

Must be both operated and coded by a OneWorld airline. But its the flight number that counts for this promotion.

Wonderrrrrrrrrrful news. Thanks!

10/16/04 AMERICAN AIRLINES 7710 F SCL LAX 5,569 8,354 13,923
10/16/04 LAN AIRLINES 750 J SCL GIG 1,825 2,281 4,106
10/24/04 BRITISH AIRWAYS 479 J BCN LHR 714 893 1,607
10/24/04 ONEWORLD PROMOTION 0 15,000 15,000


Bonus in AA as the flight on the 16th was a LanChile booked as the codeshare by AA several months ago. :D

Markie I'm impressed about the timeliness of the bonus miles posting. Us QF'ers have been told it'll be sometime between qualification and end of calendar year 2004....

wow that posted quick - mine hasnt come through on QF yet