Hi anyone who can help!
Last year, my wife and I flew to Europe on a cheap Czech Airlines ticket, and signed up with their frequent flyer program. We then found out that as flights Brisbane-Singapore-Abu Dhabi (and back) were with Etihad, only limited points applied. None of these points were recognised by any alliance! Czech Airlines is a Skyteam member and we accumulated points for the Czech flights. As a result we ended up with 18792 Czech Airlines OK Plus points and/or 7060 Skyteam miles.
We don’t intend returning to Europe and apparently with Skyteam if you want a business class flight (in USA), you pay for an economy flight and apply for the upgrade 3 days before flight and they will see if they have a spare BC seat. I’m not prepared to buy their miles on the off-chance! Also, it appears that we can’t sell these Skyteam points either!
I also have the following points
Qantas Airlines – 11123 – these points are gradually increasing due to Everyday rewards from Woolworths – we don’t really want to use Qantas following a really bad previous experience. Virgin Airlines – 5370 – Points accrued from an internal flight – will probably not use them again for internal flights.
The question(s) is (are) can we sell any of the accumulated points?
Next trips:-
We have booked and paid for flights to USA next year (April 2015) via Fiji air (BNE – NDI, economy) , and Air New Zealand (NDI – LAX, business – very cheap for some reason). The Air New Zealand ticket is code sharing with Fiji Air.
Which plan do we join (if any) to gain points on these flights?
In the USA we will need to fly Orlando (MCO) to New York (EWR) one way, coach , and then New York (?EWR) to Honolulu (HNL), business. Flights still to be booked.
The year after (? late 2015/or 2016) we plan to go to Hong Kong, either fly both ways, or possibly cruise one way.
My thinking is to pay for the internal tickets in USA, join Alaskan air reward plan and accumulate points for MCO-EWR and EWR-HNL. Later on, purchase enough air miles from Alasakan Air to claim a business class fare to Hong Kong (either one way or return)
Does this seem a reasonable way to go?
Again, the question(s) is (are) can we use any of the accumulated points mentioned above?
Sorry to be a bit long-winded, but if anyone can help, you need to know all the details, etc.
Will appreciate any help and comments, Thanks
Last year, my wife and I flew to Europe on a cheap Czech Airlines ticket, and signed up with their frequent flyer program. We then found out that as flights Brisbane-Singapore-Abu Dhabi (and back) were with Etihad, only limited points applied. None of these points were recognised by any alliance! Czech Airlines is a Skyteam member and we accumulated points for the Czech flights. As a result we ended up with 18792 Czech Airlines OK Plus points and/or 7060 Skyteam miles.
We don’t intend returning to Europe and apparently with Skyteam if you want a business class flight (in USA), you pay for an economy flight and apply for the upgrade 3 days before flight and they will see if they have a spare BC seat. I’m not prepared to buy their miles on the off-chance! Also, it appears that we can’t sell these Skyteam points either!
I also have the following points
Qantas Airlines – 11123 – these points are gradually increasing due to Everyday rewards from Woolworths – we don’t really want to use Qantas following a really bad previous experience. Virgin Airlines – 5370 – Points accrued from an internal flight – will probably not use them again for internal flights.
The question(s) is (are) can we sell any of the accumulated points?
Next trips:-
We have booked and paid for flights to USA next year (April 2015) via Fiji air (BNE – NDI, economy) , and Air New Zealand (NDI – LAX, business – very cheap for some reason). The Air New Zealand ticket is code sharing with Fiji Air.
Which plan do we join (if any) to gain points on these flights?
In the USA we will need to fly Orlando (MCO) to New York (EWR) one way, coach , and then New York (?EWR) to Honolulu (HNL), business. Flights still to be booked.
The year after (? late 2015/or 2016) we plan to go to Hong Kong, either fly both ways, or possibly cruise one way.
My thinking is to pay for the internal tickets in USA, join Alaskan air reward plan and accumulate points for MCO-EWR and EWR-HNL. Later on, purchase enough air miles from Alasakan Air to claim a business class fare to Hong Kong (either one way or return)
Does this seem a reasonable way to go?
Again, the question(s) is (are) can we use any of the accumulated points mentioned above?
Sorry to be a bit long-winded, but if anyone can help, you need to know all the details, etc.
Will appreciate any help and comments, Thanks