One world becoming less relevant

[Austman]

There was another thread on this topic recently. Whether you only get benefits from what’s printed on your boarding pass or whether you use your elite status in one world through another carrier for other benefits.

AFAIK, and for me personally, the issue has existed for decades.

To avoid it, always use your FF membership that you wish to use for status benefits when making your booking.

Sometimes, you can change it at the last minute to the FF membership that you wish to use for earning. Before actually boarding.

It's certainly nothing new.

 

[RooFlyer]

To avoid it, always use your FF membership that you wish to use for status benefits when making your booking.

I’ll see if I can find that thread and maybe a copy of the One World rules. If OneWorld rules say that you can use your elite status benefits while having a different number on your boarding pass, then OneWorld should honour that. But I’ll have to look it up and check.

 

[rikkitikkitavi]

Was the staff member a “dragon” just because you didn’t get your own way or for some other reason?

Also, still interested in the answer to this:

A ‘spray’ generally isn’t short form for “sorry I’m not familiar with this rule regarding your valuable One World Emerald membership, the system won’t scan you right now and I can’t let you on without your boarding being recorded, could you please speak to the service desk?”

I’ll try remember to look later, though I doubt it said ‘first group’ , the flight was full I couldn’t upgrade or buy a j ticket.

I was in the pier and wing lounges at HKG on Monday this week. Selected free extra legroom seats on my flight too thanks to OWS status. Great perk since J for this daytime flight would've been overkill @ only 7 hours.

Editing to add that cathay also enforced priority boarding at my leg into HKG from CAN, which meant I skipped a huge queue there and was able to grab an overhead bin for my carry on which isn't a guarantee since the Chinese seem to without fail overfill the entire cabins overhead storage. If you attach your FFP # to your bookings all oneworld airlines tend to take care of you.
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Looks very nice. On a QF boarding pass with your QF FFN?

 

[jase05]

Like we found with the CX F lounges in HKG last year, no entry unless your OWE was indicated on your boarding pass, just flashing your OWE card won’t get you in.
Seems like some airlines want the highest status you hold on the BP and at a guess I’d say other airlines will follow suit and perhaps OW will look at their current rules and adjust if necessary

 

[SYD]

I think it's hit and miss.

It's mostly worked for me but not always! And that was with other airlines.

Simply, if your FF membership that you wish to use for status benefits is not in your booking, it can cause issues in some situations.

I suppose a better system needs to be invented when booking:

1. You nominate a FF membership that you wish to use for status benefits.
2. You also nominate a FF membership that you wish to use for earning.

That system already exists in Amadeus (and Sabre?).

Using Status Benefits & Earning Points with Different Programs

If you have status with a given airline, you'll often feel obliged to continue crediting points to that airline's frequent flyer program.

www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au

But QF and a lot of OW airlines don’t support splitting earn and benefits across different FF programs now (and getting tighter).

If Group boarding is important (ie flying cattle class), use your highest status. At least for lounge access, you can still technically swap FF# between lounge and gate/boarding.

But if you’re just using one FF# with status for both earn and benefits, then OWE is a sweet spot across alliances and not to be sniffed at!