Where do you credit your kids'/spouse's points ?

[KingHuang]

Hey everyone,

Where do you all prefer to credit your child's points/status (under 18), and is there a strategy that you use so that you earn status across different airlines at the same time? (e.g. if parent credit against Qantas, and child credits against Qatar - whether you are flying Qantas or Qatar)

Hopefully I am thinking that this is viable, where in one family of 3 or 4 you pool 2-3 different frequent flyer programs or earn status against a few.

Or is it best to credit it all to just one person?

EDIT: I was thinking this through a bit more, and perhaps it should be done at a alliance/group level - so if flying any alliance, pick 2 to credit against, so might end up getting 3 x 2 - total 6 different status to go for in the family if you travel around the world haha!

 

[andye]

Hey everyone,

Where do you all prefer to credit your child's points/status (under 18), and is there a strategy that you use so that you earn status across different airlines at the same time? (e.g. if parent credit against Qantas, and child credits against Qatar - whether you are flying Qantas or Qatar)

Hopefully I am thinking that this is viable, where in one family of 3 or 4 you pool 2-3 or earn status against a few.

Or is it best to credit it all to just one person?

The only programne that I am aware of that allows pooling of status credits is VA though many others allow pooling of points. At one stage it needed a trick to even open a child account with BA.
One aspect is that most programmes (QF and VA are notable exceptions) only allow 1 guest so you probably want at least 2 people in the same alliance unless you always fly J.
If you fly enough for all the family to have have status mixing can be beneficial

 

[moa999]

Depends on the program. VA has a formal family pooling program where you can pool SCs.

QF will allow family transfers of points only.