Hi all...
I seem to be confusing myself a little bit when trying to comprehend how MH joining OW is going to work re: points/miles.
I am a QFF Gold member planning to fly to Burma from Sydney in August, and am tossing up between 3 flight options:
A. QF to BKK, then AirAsia to Yangon, OR
B. MH to Yangon via KUL
C. VA to Yangon via HoChiMinh & then Hanoi
Option A is about $350 more expensive than option B, and about $500 more than option C, but earns me points, status credits, provides access to lounge and gives me time to see BKK for a day or two.
Option B is cheap-ish, but I only earn Enrich miles, and have about 4-6 (unusable) hours in KUL each way (shame, as I'd really like to see KUL).
Option C is the cheapest, via Vietnam Air (which I prefer to a hodge-podge AirAsia option), even though we again don't get enough time to see HoChiMinh city or Hanoi.
I was tempted to go with option A, because I need a few hundred more status credits to maintain my QFF Gold for 2013, but given I only earn 60 status credits with option A, I can't see myself flying enough before December to retain Gold for next year... spending the few extra hundred dollars doesn't seem worth it.
Option C then became preferred, until I remembered that MH is set to join OW later this year.
This is where I need help...
The Enrich miles I would earn with option B can't be converted into my QFF membership ... right?
So post-join, I could book and fly MH and earn QFF points?
But my Enrich miles earned pre-join would just sit there - the only difference being I could redeem them to book OW flights instead of just MH flights? (also option B won't earn me enough Enrich miles to be of any real value for this purpose, as my current Enrich miles are 0).
Have I got this right? or is there any way any Enrich miles I earn pre-join will benefit my QFF membership?
Thanks all