Welcome to FT kingwj :)

It means South African is not yet in *A. You need to check your program to see whether SAA is a partner. There's a link in the opening post to *A FFP partners, which I think is up to date.

Added LX as future *A member.

*A reference guide added.

*A-wide upgrades added

Updated for LX and SA's imminent joining of *A, and added some more regional *A websites.

You could add here the LH seating thread.

Thanks, added.

Unorthodox routes added.

Updated for Shanghai Airlines joining *A (future date)

And updated for Air China to join *A

Thanks for the great post

I'm debatting if I'll stay with AP for 2007-2008. I do, however really appreciate *A. Hence my dilemma, if I'm to change airline without having to rebuilt my status with the new airline, which *A airlines would offer status match for an AP Elite?

I've tried US a few times and loved it, but, since I'm travelling 50/50 between overseas and local/US any airlines would do assuming it meets my travel plans...

You can't status match directly within *A unless you have some special circumstances - eg moving continents. However you can still use your AC*G benefits even while still building up status on another *A program. Show your card to get lounge access, priority check in, priority baggage tags etc. Make your booking with AC FFP# to get access to preferred seating and then switch to other FFP # at check in. And so on.

Routing list and link updated (see bottom of opening post) - thanks BlondeBomber for hosting ^

Finally I found the gateway page to the fare rules (*RTW and others) published by NZ:

http://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/agent...es/default.htm