Earning miles on Airlines in India

[Restless]

Hi,
I have a number of boarding passes with me from travel in India last year and I'd like to know if they are valid for any of the FF clubs I belong to? Hopefully somebody can let me know or help by directing to me to the part of this site or another website that lists clubs and their partner airlines?
I flew:
Kingfisher
Kingfisher Red
Air India
GoAir
JetLite

I am a member of
Qantas FF
Lufthansa M&M
Delta SkyMiles
GulfAir
Virgin Blue

Thanks!
Brett

 

[browski]

Have you considered looking at the websites of the FF programs of which you belong?

Qantas FF
Lufthansa M&M
Delta SkyMiles
GulfAir
Virgin Blue

I know it's a long shot but you never know your luck in the big city.

 

[samh004]

Welcome to AFF!

Additionally, you may find that you have waited too long to credit the miles to any particular program, and if you recently joined the program (ie. after you took the flight) you’re ineligible to claim the miles.

 

[Restless]

Thank you Samh!

No, it's okay. It was the end of last year and I know at least that Delta allows 9 months to retroactively claim points. I had also joined all clubs well before this time so that's not a problem either. I just find it really difficult to work out which airlines are partnered with which other ones, outside of the major alliances that is. And in India they seriously didn't want to know about any other cards than Kingfisher!!

Just saw the other response above. Such a smart reply is so appreciated...
The problem is that each program tends to have different points allocated for each airline depending on the seat you're in right? Eg, you may earn 50% points for travelling in a certain class of Kingfisher with Qantas but 100% with Lufthansa (just an example - I realise they're not actually partners). Or maybe you earn 0 points in which case it'd be worthwhile signing up with Kingfisher.

All I wanted to know was whether a site existed that linked all the partnerships, RATHER than having to actually visit all your FF program sites each time you are looking at booking a new trip. See, sadly not everyone has 'gold', 'sapphire' and 'preferred' next to their name indicating how well they must know the world of FFs. How I wish...

 

[samh004]

It would appear you’d have to go to each site and look at the conditions. I did have a look on wikipedia and found most of the airlines you mentioned were LCC’s, which would probably exclude them from any points earning.

Air India is of course Star Alliance, so that lets you just look at whatever Star Alliance programs you’re a member of for clues as to earning.

Kingfisher is due to join OneWorld next year, but I don’t think there is any earning with Qantas available yet, and by the time it’s announced, will unfortunately not be retroactive.

I see JetLite is owned by Jet Airways, and they do have partnerships with Qantas, Lufthansa, Delta, GulfAir and Virgin Atlantic, but not Virgin Blue. So you’d have to go to each of those websites to find out what the earning potential is like, but I’m not sure JetLite is covered by Jet Airways, due to it being a LCC.