Posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008 by pelf and filed in Life as I see it

Does anybody know of a frequent flyer program that allows you to accumulate flyer miles regardless of the airlines you’re flying?

Airbus A380, Singapore Airshow 2008
Image credit: Yeo Kok Leng.

I’d be flying about 30,000 miles in the coming months and I thought it would be good to accumulate those miles, huh? Who knows, I might be able to earn myself an air ticket to somewhere, sometime :biggrin:

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  1. Tine says:

    I’m afraid I only use MAS’ Enrich, so I can’t help you there. Are you an Enrich member? If not, go sign up. Free one :P

    If you’re using MAS, oh man, those 30k miles can (I think) get you an upgrade to business class!

  2. Pelfy says:

    Very beautiful shot. Ah.. it reminds me of the tears.

  3. Plastron says:

    Firstly, I think the Airbus is a splendid piece of aeronautic engineering and that photo is superb…shot like a pro.

    I only know of MAS to offer a frequent flyer program in Malaysia as what Tine has mentioned.

    You could also check this out: A Guide to Frequent Flyer Programs
    I see that Singapore Airlines is also offering a frequent flyer program called KrisFlyer.

  4. Mei Mei says:

    Jie, you may not know this: I’m a MAS Enrich member. Haha.. but i don’t think I have enough points to exchange an economy ticket to Kuala Terengganu. Wuakaka.. How sad!

    I still love the shot. Maybe you can help me take pictures of different airlines like this too. Ahhaaa…

  5. pelf says:

    Thanks for the link, Plastron, but what I’m look for is a program that allows us to accumulate air miles even if we used different airlines.

  6. pelf says:

    The thing is, Tine, my 30K air miles is the total miles that I will be flying with United and MAS. In fact, I will only be flying a little over 4K miles with MAS. That means I’ll lose the other 26K miles unless I enrol into United’s Mileage Plus program.

    By the way, how many frequent flyer program does one need anyway? LOL.

  7. moz says:

    There isn’t one single alliance where you can collect points across any airlines. It just doesn’t exist.

    MAS has some alliances, too bad United isn’t one of them. Depending on your ticket class, you might not actually get the actual mileage you’ve flown. Some discount tickets don’t even get points, while some get less than 100%.

    Singapore Airlines is part of the famous Star Alliance, so if you fly Thai Airways, another member, you get points on the SG Krisflyer as well.

    I have at least 4 frequent flyer membership, and have gold status in 2 of them currently.

  8. Naoko says:

    Try the credit cards? If I’m not wrong, Citibank/one of the more popular CC company has a policy where you can accumulate Frequent Flyer miles. Can’t remember which one though, sorry.