Sacrilege: 6 Flights Where I Elected NOT To Earn Miles

You can actually credit JetStar flights to Emirates Skywards.

I kind of disagree that Qantas's program is bad, Lucky. They are basically at the same redemption ranges as Avios, though maybe a bit higher. Status on Qantas is spectacular though: access to First Class lounges when flying Emirates, Jetstar, OR oneworld. While the currency may be terrible (similar to SkyPesos), the frequent flyer benefits are very, very good.

I think you can credit PS to KLM

Qantas is a good program for Australians with huge CC bonus like 100,000 per card with no annual fee. That's enough for a business reward to the US/Middle East from Aus. and it's distance based rewards can be good.

+1 on crediting Ukraine to Flying Blue. I've flown JFK to ALA and VNO via KBP and retroactively credited all flights to FB without any issues.

And here I thought the article would be about you donating the miles.

QFFF is great if you live in australia because earning miles is so easy it makes up for the somewhat crappy redemption rates. It's really focussed on rewarding Australian based elites very well. I agree that it's not much use if you live outside Australia.

But, you still earn 3 points per dollar spent to whoever you want, depending on what credit card you use

You may claim missing miles request to Asia Miles for your BI flight and QF have some unique airline partners you may redeem them only with QFFF miles like Air Vanuatu and Air Niugini that you may interesting to review in the future

QF short haul awards aren't bad, and even can be semi-reasonable for EK JFK-MXP in business, plus you can top off by transferring points from Citi.

Yeah not sure why you're down on Qantas as someone who likes flying Emirates. If you're flying a route under 3000 miles, their redemption rates for premium cabins are very appealing

"...though I find Qantas’ frequent flyer program to be so bad..."

Ben, why do you find Qantas' FF programme to be so bad? I don't disagree, rather I'm keen to hear your methodical analysis and interpretation of why it is bad.

Title is Misleading. You didn't purposely elect not to earn miles. You were just too lazy to figure it out. Waste of time.

Glad to see I'm not the only supporter of QFF. Had you been a QF Platinum Lucky, you would have access to the Emirates First Class lounge on your EK J flight. 😉

Random question but I am stuck in Virgins Atlantic for a HK-London round trip next week and wondered if anyone has an opinion on what the most useful program to credit the miles to would be? It's obviously not Flying Club and I almost never use Delta or Skyteam...

So in like half of these you're still trying to get the flights credited.

Kinda contradicts your post title.

@lopere,

It's click bait. Why are some of you so surprised? You've got to take it all with a large pinch of salt, and forgive the dramatics.

Is that the literal meaning of "sacrilege" as a hyperbole, or is that a play-on-word between "sacrifice" and "mileage"?

@Kerry-How about Krisflyer or Air China Phoenix Miles?

@Lucky: did you purchase starter plus with your JQ flight? If not you wouldn't have earned any miles with QF anyway.

If you don't intend to credit your flights to QF, then it makes no sense to purchase starter plus as it would've been cheaper to buy the luggage allowance separately.

And no, you can't credit JQ flights to EK as someone suggest. QF has JV with EK but not JQ. It's like you can't credit JQ flights with AA as JQ isn't a OW member.

@Michael, I was credited 1000 EK miles on a Jetstar Asia flight a few months ago (which more the mileage flown). Of course it was an insanely expensive flexible fare booked last minute, so I'd hardly reccomend it. But it is possible.

No reason to give up on PS. Quite easy to credit to Flying Blue is EY isn't happening.

Jetstar flights only earn with QF (or any other partner) if the right fare type is purchased. You need to book a bundle that includes points (which is more than the basic fare) to get any points.