Singapore to Rome-earning status credits.

[onemore]

Is there anyway I can get from Singapore to Rome and earn status credits with a oneworld airline?

 

[Anna]

SIN - LHR - FCO on BA?

 

[maroonone]

Or on AY and avoid LHR charges.

 

[onemore]

AY? expand please

 

[Mattg]

The only airline flying this route direct is Singapore Airlines, but there are a few one-stop options available on oneworld airlines. British Airways via London has already been mentioned. Other options include Qatar Airways via Doha, Finnair (AY) via Helsinki and Cathay Pacific via Hong Kong.

 

[onemore]

Thanks Mattg.

 

[Anna]

I thought they flew from BKK, I didn't know that AY flew from SIN to HEL

 

[onemore]

Being new to this code share thing, will I get status credits on Cathay Pacific as long as it is a CX coded flight, that it doesn't have to be a QF code share?

Personally I don't think that there is anything simple about all this, it seems that Qantas is the only international airline that really doesn't go anywhere international.

Thanks to everyone for helping me sort this.

 

[TomVexille]

You earn QF SCs on oneworld airlines if you book one of the fare classes on this page

 

[eminere]

Is there anyway I can get from Singapore to Rome and earn status credits with a oneworld airline?

Try the Flight Search function on the oneworld web site.

 

[maroonone]

I thought they flew from BKK, I didn't know that AY flew from SIN to HEL

They fly from BKK, HKG & SIN with A350 from all ports shortly. When I booked direct with AY I got a QF flight number from SIN to Aus and thus full SC.

 

[hutch]

Being new to this code share thing, will I get status credits on Cathay Pacific as long as it is a CX coded flight, that it doesn't have to be a QF code share?

Personally I don't think that there is anything simple about all this, it seems that Qantas is the only international airline that really doesn't go anywhere international.

Thanks to everyone for helping me sort this.

Yes the QF network could definately expand... but expecting them to fly SIN-FCO is a little too much imo.

 

[Robert Qld]

If ease of transfers at the connection airport is important, I'd rate HEL better then DOH or HKG. I've had multiple SIN-HEL-another EU port flights before (it is my preferred way in the EU) and my record is five minutes from deboarding, through security and immigration and at my next gate.

The one downside is the AY Schengen-side lounge is fairly ordinary and nowhere near as good as the non-Schengen side one, and even then the QR and CX lounges beat both lounges by leaps and bounds. I know on past flights AY IFE was really really limited as well, though I am not sure if that has changed since the introduction of the new planes.

And the funny thing is, while on a flat map going via HEL looks much longer, it really isn't, once you factor in curvature of the earth (making it shorter in the polar regions then it really looks on a flat map) and the lightning quick connection time, it really isn't a huge different.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

For Onemore, you will earn SC, as mentioned by the other colleagues, but at a rate less than if the airline carried a QF flight number, or on QF's own metal.
CX does not carry a QF flight number, (don't think they ever do), so you will earn, but less SC.
You can use the QF SC calculator.
EK is the long way around option, but that airline is now in a co existing relationship with QF, so will earn you max SC on routes they have an agreement with QF with.