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Originally Posted by jdtravels (Post 24866439)

disproportionate number of oneworld trip reports compared to SkyTeam

DL or AF/KLM with only the occasional report of flights on other member airlines.

forgetting KE F?

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Originally Posted by eponymous_coward (Post 24872059)

AF, KE and CZ, completely inaccessible for F redemptions from partners like DL and AS (though thanks to manufactured spend and Chase/AMEX, not completely inaccessible, just less so)

plus >
DL, KL, AZ, etc - no F
DL miles poorly regarded

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Originally Posted by Kagehitokiri (Post 24873293)

plus >
DL, KL, AZ, etc - no F
DL miles poorly regarded

Yeah, and Flying Blue isn't regarded all that well as a program either. Plus I'm pretty sure KE makes you take a polygraph test, submit a blood sample and an affidavit to redeem miles.

The really flashy/blingy F stuff is ME 3, which also means AA/BA/AS.... more programs oriented towards OW and English-speaking countries (in terms of where they serve and customer base).

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Originally Posted by Kagehitokiri (Post 24873293)

DL miles are worthless

Fixed something for you ;)

statistics on trip reports forum would be interesting

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Originally Posted by brewdog11 (Post 24873403)

Fixed something for you ;)

maybe a lot of the DL earners on FT >
- more focused on status than awards
- business travelers who dont write reports
- redeem for travel for business / to family
- redeem for family / other people
- redeem for Y including domestic

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Originally Posted by mpkz (Post 24871734)

Also this might just be me but I don't care that much about seeing 10 pictures of the menu in one trip report, most of which just have one page of the wine list. But different tastes I guess.

Or numerous shots of a glass of water on a napkin.

I'm sure the first comment has it correct. US and AA miles are (or were in the case of US) easy to come by. Lots of people have a lot of them. And they are easy to redeem for premium cabins on a number of airlines. I've used mine for CX F to SE Asia the last couple of years (and will again this year). I'm sure that's the main reason.

I think there were a lot of *A reports for a while as well when it was easy to cash in relatively small amounts of UA miles for travel on premium airlines. And Aeroplan used to have such great, cheap F redemptions too. Now that they've devalued you see somewhat fewer *A reports.

It's great that this section is here though. Personally I am more interested in destinations than lounges, seats and menus/food. So whatever airline, doesn't matter.

My most recent travel was on paid tickets though AC to Japan which I wrote a report on and I am just back from a couple of weeks in Spain thanks to DL's cheap Z class fares to Europe. I'll write that report once I get the photos edited. (Credited the miles to AS)