Help with united flights/miles

[Saurs82]

Trying to find flights from santa Ana to orlando this october 2a2c. Cheapest option atm is united airlines in economy (even adding on 2x checked bags). This is a one way flight. None of us are frequent flyers in the US but we all have qantas and virgin ff accounts. we will also have a flight later from orlando to san francisco at this stage cheapest flights are with southwest.
Is it at all worth signing up to united miles (and southwest) considering we probably wouldnt be back in the stared for and another 18mths?
It looks like you can convert united miles to krisflyer point then to velocity is it worth doing that at all? The seats would be economy class (not flexible rates).
Thankyou for your help.

 

[sergeyvzn]

Trying to find flights from santa Ana to orlando this october 2a2c. Cheapest option atm is united airlines in economy (even adding on 2x checked bags). This is a one way flight. None of us are frequent flyers in the US but we all have qantas and virgin ff accounts. we will also have a flight later from orlando to san francisco at this stage cheapest flights are with southwest.
Is it at all worth signing up to united miles (and southwest) considering we probably wouldnt be back in the stared for and another 18mths?
It looks like you can convert united miles to krisflyer point then to velocity is it worth doing that at all? The seats would be economy class (not flexible rates).
Thankyou for your help.

Sign up to United Miles and do both flights to Orlando and back with them. You'll get a few miles then when United will have a miles sale (which they regularly hold) you'll buy more miles to have the total of 80K. The 80K will give you a nice first class return trip on Thai anywhere in South Asia - I'm sure you'll appreciate a private suite, caviar and Dom Perignon

 

[JohnK]

Another option is to look at crediting directly to something like SQ KrisFlyer if the booking class earns miles.

And as you mention from KrisFlyer you can transfer to Velocity or transfer from Velocity to KrisFlyer.

 

[joelyong]

Not worth it to credit UA flights to UA miles! You'd only be earning based on your spending amount, not the miles flown...

Sign up to United Miles and do both flights to Orlando and back with them. You'll get a few miles then when United will have a miles sale (which they regularly hold) you'll buy more miles to have the total of 80K. The 80K will give you a nice first class return trip on Thai anywhere in South Asia - I'm sure you'll appreciate a private suite, caviar and Dom Perignon