associate status & Kenya airways
Mar 16, 2006 | 8:29 am
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associate status & Kenya airways
anyone know when KQ would become an associate member? The website says 06 but would that happen, from experiences with ST everything moves so slowly. Also what exactly is the meaning of associate status? Someone said that you can't redeem miles - is that true?
Mar 16, 2006 | 8:45 am
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Originally Posted by UA Fan
anyone know when KQ would become an associate member? The website says 06 but would that happen, from experiences with ST everything moves so slowly. Also what exactly is the meaning of associate status? Someone said that you can't redeem miles - is that true?
Apr 9, 2006 | 5:02 pm
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Originally Posted by apoivre
Associate status means they don't get to vote in alliance-wide decisions and they don't get to keep their own FFP (note that KQ doesn't have one anyway - they use KL/AF's Flying Blue). You should definitely be able to earn and redeem miles on an associate member.
Apr 10, 2006 | 1:24 am
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As an ex KL FF, and now FB member, I earm and burn miles on KQ. My earning miles are definitelt status miles.
I fly KQ in preference to AF & KL, as KQ definitely have better on board service !
I fly KQ in preference to AF & KL, as KQ definitely have better on board service !