Where to credit miles for Skyteam (Garuda and China Airlines) flights?

Babesofy

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When you fly with Garuda and China airlines, where do you choose to credit your miles to successfully redeem flights?

I see myself flying a fair bit with Garuda and China Airlines over the next few years. I dont care about earning status but I do care about how easy it will be to redeem points for flights.

Within Skyteam, China Airlines seem to be the front runner so far as it has no points expiry and allows family points pooling/transfer. However a search on this forum some have mentioned they only release 1 J seat at a time and I dont know what their partner availability is like.

I have checked wheretocredit, but that only answers half of the story (how much miles is earned). It doesn't address what its like redeeming on those programs.

I am based in Sydney if that makes a difference.
 
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I would probably credit to Flying Blue. They have a 24 month expiry but that resets with activity (Iike Qantas/VA)

The other option is Virgin Atlantic, which never expire. Few quirks between them so check before you take my word ha!
 

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