Krisflyer Accrual levels are not fair?

[pierpi]

Hello

I was about to book an intercontinental flight with Air China, class S. Standing to the fare rules I am entitled to earn miles.

When I double checked on SQ Accrual Levels
( http://www.singaporeair.com/pdf/ppsc...FOALLevels.pdf )

I realised that SQ does not recognise miles from class S of Air China. As well as many other 50% classes of other airlines.

As you can see here ( http://www.miles-and-more.com/online...l=en&cid=18002 )
Lufthansa does accept those miles, as the other star alliance members.


Furthermore during my investigations I have also found this some other surprising information:
If you book an SQ flight with fares giving 50% and 10% of miles, those miles are not recognised to staralliance partners.
this is taken from the online booking system flight fares details:
"No KrisFlyer miles will be earned under booking classes N, Q, T, V for members of other frequent flyer programmes. "

I just wonder why Singapore Airlines remains in star alliance if they do not want to share the same rules.

Comments are welcome.

[yauee]

Ops!!! SQ Q class only earn 50% on Krisflyer. Most of the Staralliace Q class earn 100% on Krisflyer

[Gunnar Smithsen]

Had a similiar issue recently... Booked one of those fares that offer 10% of the miles...

Obviously couldn't accrue to any other *A program except for SQ, so retro claimed the 4 flights (all booked on the same PNR), 3 of the 4 flights automatically came through after submitting the retroclaim. The 4th flight didn't go through with KF sighting that it had been previously accrued.

Confused, I sent an email to KF asking what was going on and get a reply saying that it had been credited to my A3 account and that I should contact A3.

Replied, impossible as that fare category is not eligible for A3 accrual and why of the 4 flights only the last one have this issue. Still haven't heard back.

Thanks to the OP for the reminder for me to contact KF and get stuck in about this

[pierpi]

One more surprise that I was not aware of....
The Krisflyer gold bonus does not apply to fares that gives you 50% or 10% of miles!
Thanks, SQ!