Soon to be in SIN, with stingy employer: which FFP?
Hallo everyone,
this is my first post on here after having found you via a hint on FlyerTalk.
If possible, I would appreciate your advice on the situation I will be finding myself in soon. I am moving out to SIN from LON in Feb/Mar 2009 with work and will be doing a lot of travelling in SE Asia. Most of this (90%) will be done in whY, with the very occasional trip in J and none in F.
Main destinations will be Jakarta, Manila, Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Colombo, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok (if they will have opened their airport again by then), amounting to 3-4 rtn trips per month. In addition, there will be around 4 roundtrips to Europe (Switzerland and Germany) per, annoyingly also in Y.
I noticed from a few random fare comparisons on Kayak that SQ almost always seems to come out twice as expensive as MH, for instance. As a consequence, my employer will prefer to put me on Malaysia Airlines, so I won't be able to accumulate miles on * Alliance too often. Similarly, CX are also quite pricey in comparison.
I have no status in any FFP apart from soon Silver on BA EC.
I would like to use the FFP benefits mostly to access lounges in airports and to use accumulated miles to upgrade to J on long flights within Asia (e.g. China) and Europe.
Unfortunately, from what I have read, Malaysia's Enrich program seems not to be a good FFP, although they are a good airline.
Since I will be based in SIN, do you think it would be a good idea nonetheless to aim for PPS on KF, or Elite Gold, in particular if I get a KF AmEx card and take advantage of other "local benefits"? Or is there a trick to funnel my miles on MH into M&M? I saw that Enrich does credit miles flown on LX to their members accounts, but vice versa?
I hope you can see my predicament and would appreciate your advice a lot!
Many thanks,
Wally
Hallo everyone,
this is my first post on here after having found you via a hint on FlyerTalk.
If possible, I would appreciate your advice on the situation I will be finding myself in soon. I am moving out to SIN from LON in Feb/Mar 2009 with work and will be doing a lot of travelling in SE Asia. Most of this (90%) will be done in whY, with the very occasional trip in J and none in F.
Main destinations will be Jakarta, Manila, Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Colombo, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok (if they will have opened their airport again by then), amounting to 3-4 rtn trips per month. In addition, there will be around 4 roundtrips to Europe (Switzerland and Germany) per, annoyingly also in Y.
I noticed from a few random fare comparisons on Kayak that SQ almost always seems to come out twice as expensive as MH, for instance. As a consequence, my employer will prefer to put me on Malaysia Airlines, so I won't be able to accumulate miles on * Alliance too often. Similarly, CX are also quite pricey in comparison.
I have no status in any FFP apart from soon Silver on BA EC.
I would like to use the FFP benefits mostly to access lounges in airports and to use accumulated miles to upgrade to J on long flights within Asia (e.g. China) and Europe.
Unfortunately, from what I have read, Malaysia's Enrich program seems not to be a good FFP, although they are a good airline.
Since I will be based in SIN, do you think it would be a good idea nonetheless to aim for PPS on KF, or Elite Gold, in particular if I get a KF AmEx card and take advantage of other "local benefits"? Or is there a trick to funnel my miles on MH into M&M? I saw that Enrich does credit miles flown on LX to their members accounts, but vice versa?
I hope you can see my predicament and would appreciate your advice a lot!
Many thanks,
Wally
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