Airmiles - Quick Question

Eriedor

Eriedor

Eriedor

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I've just booked flights to NYC for myself and gf.

Now I've never thought about collecting airmiles until now so signed up to Virgin's FF club.

I was able to add the miles from the NYC tickets to my account for my ticket but it kept on erroring when i tried to add the ticket for my gf.

Is it standard practice that airmiles can only be given to the passenger and not to the person booking it? Surely as I booked and paid for both tickets I should be able to get all the miles?
 
Its normal for miles to goto the person. Some airlines like BA offer a family account to pool miles.
 
It goes to whoever's FF number is in the system on that ticket.
You can only claim miles once per flight though, so you can claim them on that flight, but if you want your GF to get miles then you'd have to start another account.
It doesn't matter who's paying though.
 
Bit of a bugger really, surely the perk of me paying is i get all the miles!

Nvm I'll get her to create an account.

Thanks gents.
 
Miles can only be collected by the person who is flying (i.e named on the boarding pass) in their own account. Miles for other people's flights cannot be credited to your own account. It makes sense since if you could credit anyone's miles to your account it would completely devalue the worth of miles and wouldn't encourage frequent flying.

Most frequent flyer programmes don't allow transfer of redeemable miles between accounts either so you can't pool the miles you and your GF get into your account.
 
For what it is worth, I believe that with Airmiles (if that is actually what you are talking about and not Virgin's Frequent Flyer program), you can create a "Family" account which offers greater flexibility.

Airmiles is a complete con anyhow, nobody even uses / offers it any more so far as I know :confused:
 
The only frequent flyer program I use thats worth anything more than lounge access is continental. BAs has hit the skids bigtime since they upped the miles cost of all their flights a year or so back and the others are equally stingy.

Hotels wise ive got a shed load of points with Marriot and while im not a huge fan of theirs the points do actually get you some good return. I've booked 5 nights in the JW Marriot in Jakarta for nothing but points and its a $300 a night hotel. Intercontinetal's scheme aint bad either.

One of the guys I work with is like George Clonney in the film "Up in the Air" and books all his travel around maximum points
 
stockhausen said:
For what it is worth, I believe that with Airmiles (if that is actually what you are talking about and not Virgin's Frequent Flyer program), you can create a "Family" account which offers greater flexibility.

Airmiles is a complete con anyhow, nobody even uses / offers it any more so far as I know :confused:
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I haven't seen it for a while.
I just use Frequent Flyer schemes now.
However, if you only ever fly economy, it will take years and years to accrue enough for anything worthwhile..
 
mjt said:
However, if you only ever fly economy, it will take years and years to accrue enough for anything worthwhile..
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Virgin Atlantic is not too bad, best thing is very few miles 2,000 pp allows access to the miles + money flights, which can offer a decent saving.

Example:

Virgin Atlantic to Tokyo in July: £720.47
Virgin Atlantic Miles + Money : £627

(Not saying this is a good price, just the percentage savings possible)
 
I was referring to totally 'free' flights.
I don't know Virgin's FF system though, I'm only familiar with SkyTeam, One World and Star Alliance.

I've got a Lufthansa one as my main one, and even on 'free' tickets you can end up paying over £200 in taxes, just inside Europe. However, you can also use miles for taxes, but then you need almost 30,000 for a flight within Europe.
And you get 125 miles for 1 Economy flight in Europe :p
 
Raymond Lin said:
How does one sign up to an air miles club and which one is the best one? :)
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Sign up for the Frequent Flyer programme of the airline with whom you fly the most.
If you're serious about collecting miles, you'll end up only flying with them or another airline in the programme.
The three main alliances are:
Star Alliance, which is the biggest and arguably the best(Air NZ, Lufthansa, BMI, Thai, Singapore, Brussels Airlines, Austrian, Swis, SAS and many more..)
Oneworld (AA, BA, Cathay, Finnair, Iberia, Qantas, etc..)
SkyTeam (Air France, KLM, Alitalia, Delta, etc..)
 
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