How to collect Oneworld frequent flyer benefits from an RTW trip?
I took an RTW trip earlier this year with several long flights that were all/mostly Oneworld companies:
- 1 x British Airways
- 1 x American Airlines
- 3 x Qantas
- (Also 2 medium-haul flights with TACA/Lacsa which apparently is not part of Oneworld...)
Is there a way to collectively get frequent flyer benefits via Oneworld? Or would I need register separately to programs of the different carriers? (Currently I belong to none.) Also, is it a problem that the trip took place some months ago (March - May)? I do have at least the boarding passes of all the flights saved up.
From reading Chris Guillebeau's stuff I've come to understand there should be significant benefits to unlock. (He wrote somewhere that by paying for one RTW trip you can basically get another one almost for free – he calls this "travel hacking"). If this is true, what are the easiest concrete steps?
Best Answer
There are benefits that you can get across the OneWorld network. Things like early boarding, things like free checked luggage, etc...
The only way to get those benefits would be to accumulate at least 25,000 (more likely - for more benefits - would be 50,000+) miles in a single calendar year. So, to do that you would have to get all of those boarding passes and mail them into a single frequent flier program. Let's say you want status on American Airlines... You can mail all of those boarding passes to AA's AAdvantage program, and they will credit you for all of those (or most of those) miles.
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