Speculation at how Emerald members are split across the alliance
Sep 3, 2006 | 3:02 pm
#46
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: London
Posts: 135
Originally Posted by JuPe
It takes some traveling to do the 300000 kms, but it's amazing sometimes to see on the HEL-LHR or HEL-CDG how many passengers have that aluminium trolley. I somehow think that they are or have been AY Plats.
As said previously many of my colleagues have signed for the AA plat challenge. For some of them the BA Exec Club program was too difficult, because they didn't fly enough on BA.
As said previously many of my colleagues have signed for the AA plat challenge. For some of them the BA Exec Club program was too difficult, because they didn't fly enough on BA.
Nowadays the 4 BA metal flights are actually a problem as my AONE-expiration is now in May and so is my membership year expiration. If I start a new AONE as I'm likely to do and do that before my membership year changes, then it's no problem. Otherwise it is as the BA schedule for HEL really sucks. A Friday afternoon BA HEL-LHR arrives so late I won't make it to the pub before 9 o'clock leaving a pitiful 2 hours for warm beer... And the morning flight 7:45 would mean waking up before 5 o'clock. No way.
/hv
Sep 4, 2006 | 12:08 am
#47
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: HEL
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 152
Originally Posted by MiamiBeach
I thought the Finnair points were based on kilometers, and business class counted double, and first class triple, so ~62500 miles in F, or ~94000 in J earns Platinum. And most shorthaul earns more points than the actual km (Finland to Scandinavia 1500, to Germany 2000, x2 in J) right?.
Sep 4, 2006 | 9:16 am
#48
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Citizen of the world
Programs: QF Plat./OW Emerald + Life Gold, IC Plat. Royal Ambassador, etc.
Posts: 2,891
Originally Posted by ajnaro
My partner and I are both EXP; we travel together very frequently; never, on any OW flight (including IB), have we ever received an op-up or any other kind of special attention, even with paid first or business class tickets in hand.
Upgrades : Once again, as a QF Platinum, I was upgraded 2 out of the 4 legs of the itinerary. I say 'once again' as EACH AND EVERY TIME I have flown an itinerary on IB with a connection (as I have done on one occasion in each of the last 4 years) they have upgraded me on the shorter flight on both the outbound and the inbound. 100% record. These have always been on cheapest-available Y tickets, and on the first occasion I was not even Plat. but QF Gold (OW Sapphire) !
Is this an unpublished benefit of QF status when flying on IB ?!?
And what was so amazing was that this time the flight in question on the return was on BA metal and yet I was still upped at the gate. (Have flown UK-Europe on BA down the back many many many times in the last few years and never once been Op-Upped, so must have been the IB factor at work).
Is this an unpublished benefit of QF status when flying on IB ?!?
And what was so amazing was that this time the flight in question on the return was on BA metal and yet I was still upped at the gate. (Have flown UK-Europe on BA down the back many many many times in the last few years and never once been Op-Upped, so must have been the IB factor at work).
Sep 5, 2006 | 2:57 pm
#49
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold(OWE), QF LTG, MR Plat, IHG Spire, Hertz PC
Posts: 8,156
Originally Posted by jjpb3
I think Traveloguy was really thinking about SEN (for members based in Germany and Austria), not HON. As you point out, HON requires 600K flown on specific airlines.
Actually it is 600K over two years, thus 300K per year which is therefore 100K in F per year.http://www.miles-and-more.com/online...nodeid=1566361
FWIW, QF and BA would only require approx 40K miles in F to get their top tier as they are both generous programmes in terms of gaining status when flying F. SEN in F would only need 33K miles if a non-German resident.
AA seems much more generous to flyers travelling in Y compared to both QF and BA, yet when travelling in F, EXP requires 66K.
Sep 6, 2006 | 5:28 am
#51
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold(OWE), QF LTG, MR Plat, IHG Spire, Hertz PC
Posts: 8,156
Originally Posted by kingbat
40K is not much - Cathay require 80,000 miles in 1st class for Diamond (emerald) Membership