helping a friend here...

If you were based in southeast Asia and fly lots of short Garuda flights (paid/revenue tickets) within the region, which award program(s) would provide the best award/upgrade/redemption possibilities? Most of these tickets would be for low fare class economy seats. Would Garuda's own program yield the best overall options or would another program like Flying Blue or another Skyteam airline's program be the best place to earn miles for flying Garuda? Also, would elite status be achieved faster in another alliance partner's program than in Garuda's own program? Would the elite status level of alliance partners transfer over to the comparable level of recognition on Garuda as members of their own award scheme?

Thanks in advance for any general guidelines you can suggest.

for moderator - same thread here (sorry) - didn't know best place for this??:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...-airlines-470/

You should look at this thread about elite qualification - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/skyte...eam-elite.html - but if you're flying discount economy fares a lot I would have thought the program of the carrier you are flying on most would give you the best credit and ability to upgrade...

How low you are talking? If he flies V/H/S/G/E/U/X/O/Z/L, these will earn nothing even with GarudaMiles. The minimum class is Q/T to earn 25% miles and most of the time this is not cheap.

Just to give some idea. SIN-CGK-SIN on V class cost SGD280. The cheapest Q class is at SGD 370.

Now there is promotion of S-class for SGD175.

But the good thing about GA, all the flights will earn sectors will count toward the elite tiers.


I think none of the cheap fare earn anything on other ST. I stand to be corrected though.

Interesting thread.

I have a KL Flying Blue number with miles, level Gold at the moment and a regular Blue Garuda miles number.

I will be relocating to Indonesia in 2015 and I am wondering if I need to keep both (not sure if I can put my address on an Indonesian residence with KLM FB) or merge them in a way? Can I move my Gold level to my Garuda number?

Anyone got some good advice here?

Hello.
I fly a lot on Indonesia, including Garuda.
I believe that there is no point in making an impact on their program - many short flights and impose miles short.
Easily earned their Silver (10 flights). But it's almost nothing, except an additional 5 kg of luggage.
I wanted to make them match my SU Gold, but was refused.
Now puts them miles and segments on SU.

luv2fly4free
What is your definition of best?

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/skyte...i-sign-up.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/infor...help-here.html

It makes no sense to keep 2 memberships in the same Alliance. Merge is usually also not an option. I see no reason why you should not have an address in Indonesia as a member of FB.

Send KLM a message on facebook - in my experiance they find an answer to all questions.