Anyone a member of Miles and More?

[RTWtraveler]

We have flown several round the worlds based on Lufthansa/Swiss, both are M&M and Star Alliance. While we credit our points to Air New Zealand, as we always connect at SFO for the final leg. The majority of RTW segments are M&M. We are considering switching, but would like to know your opinion of M&M? Thanks.

 

[Mattg]

We have flown several round the worlds based on Lufthansa/Swiss, both are M&M and Star Alliance. While we credit our points to Air New Zealand, as we always connect at SFO for the final leg. The majority of RTW segments are M&M. We are considering switching, but would like to know your opinion of M&M? Thanks.

You do realise that you can credit all of these flights (as long as they are with a Star alliance airline) to any Star alliance program?

I don't rate Miles and More particularly highly, especially if you don't plan to do much travel around Europe in the future. However I do rate it higher than Airpoints which IMHO is one of the world's worst programs!

If you want to earn status with Star Alliance, perhaps choose a program where this would be most useful and credit all flights to it? Otherwise, if you really just want to maximise points earn (to put towards free flights) then perhaps crediting to Singapore KrisFlyer or United is best.

 

[tyrolean]

Miles&More was a good program, when you are based in Germany. They enanced it quite siginificantly.
I still have the *G with LH, but it is quite a great effort.

Most Economy fares are down to 25% and Cheap Business fares to 100%.
You need 100K Miles for a Star Gold (opposed to 50k in most other programs).

I would concentrate in one Star-Alliance program.

LH is strike champion at the moment 15 days of strike in 2015 and the crazy management will cause more strikes.
Have a look at the follwing programs:
- Aegean
- Turkish
- United
- Avianca
- SAS

I would not consider LH. Your miles are only valid for 3 years (unless you have a status). LH-Sliver is useless outside Germany.

Look at the booking class of the tickets and take the program that gets the most out of it.

In OZ you may look at SQ or NZ as a program, as they have special offerings there.