The changes are widespread and affect all aspects of the Flying Club program including; how many miles are earned, how many miles are needed for award flights, what bonuses elite flyers are awarded and how many
tier points flyers can earn.
Recently Virgin Atlantic announced quite a big shake up in how it calculates the miles and
tier points flyers will earn when flying on Delta and crediting their trips to the airline's Flying Club program.
Not exact matches
Members of LAN Colombia's LANPass frequent
flyer program are now able to earn and redeem miles and
tier status
points when they fly on any oneworld alliance airline partner.
In addition, members of other oneworld alliance airlines» frequent
flyer programs can earn and redeem miles, awards, and
tier status
points on LAN Colombia flights.
Although ThankYou
points earned with the Citi Preferred card can not be transferred to all of Citi's travel partners, they can be transferred to the JetBlue TrueBlue frequent
flyer program at a ratio of 1,000
TY points to 500 TrueBlue
points.
Also from midnight tonight, the 140 million members of the established oneworld airlines» frequent
flyer programmes will be able to earn and redeem awards and
tier status
points and receive all other oneworld benefits when flying on Qatar Airways.
To my mind the most egregious changes have come in the
Tier Point earning section and there's really not much upside there for anyone who reads Traveling For Miles (I don't expect many full - fare
flyers read this little blog!).
Tier points are
points that you collect to move through the different
tiers of the frequent
flyer program.
The Concorde Room is only available at London's Heathrow Airport and New York's JFK Airport, and the lounge can only be accessed if you're flying First Class on British Airways (one guest is welcome as well), or if you are a Gold Member of BA» frequent
flyer program Executive Club with 5,000
Tier Points.
Members of any oneworld member airline frequent
flyer programme will be able to take advantage of their usual privileges and benefits along the way — including earning miles /
points and, for top
tier cardholders and one companion each, the use any of the 650 plus airport lounges provided by the alliance's airlines the world over.
Add an Executive Club or partner frequent
flyer number to ensure receipt of
Tier Points and Avios.
As a member of LANTAM frequent
flyer programme, you earn
points towards your
tier status every time you travel on an eligible oneworld ® flight.
I say «most» because there are first class products such as Etihad's The Residence, SWISS First Class and Air France First Class that are effectively impossible to redeem for, unless you have an enormous
points balance and, in the case of SWISS and Air France, are also a top -
tier elite in the airline's frequent
flyer program.
As a member of Finnair's frequent
flyer programme, you earn
points towards your
tier status every time you travel on an eligible oneworld ® flight.
As a member of JAL's frequent
flyer programme, you earn miles and
points towards your
tier status every time you travel on an eligible oneworld ® flight.