VS miles with Air New Zealand

Although the NZ site says no accrual with sweet dreams Y bookings--the VS site indicates miles are earned with discounted economy fares. When I booked a ticket the site did allow me to register my VS FC number.
Any insight into what the deal is with this? I certainly would expect, given the price of this ticket, to be able to earn VS miles--but there is no indication of any letter allocation on the e-ticket.

Thanks,
RR

We haven't flown ANZ for a couple of years, but I remember it being a 'lucky dip' as regards miles received. We got anywhere from 10% of mileage flown to 100%, with no apparent logic behind it

quote:Originally posted by roadrunner
but there is no indication of any letter allocation on the e-ticket.


Yeah, I hate the way a lot of airlines are 'dumbing down' their e-ticket reciepts. I noticed that when I recently booked ANZ.

They've basically let the marketing department get at them, and stripped them of a lot of useful information while 'fluffying' them up.

This makes it very hard to work out whether your fare is upgradeable, changeable, or mileage accruing.

One of the worst examples I know off the top of my head is TAP Portugal, where the accruing and non-accruing buckets in some partner's loyalty programmes are split across the 'fluffy' easy-to-understand marketing categories. So you're left with a situation that you know that booking the lowest category gets you nothing, while booking the next category up might get you something, as long as it's in one of the right buckets, but you don't find that out until after you've booked.

The other trick is just to post the stubs in after the flight doesn't accrue automatically, and see if your airline just accrues the miles anyway.

I know people who flew on a non-earning ANZ economy fare, but were members of a different *A mileage programme. They just posted their stubs into their *A airline and got full Y fare credit for them.

Mike

quote:Originally posted by mike-smashing
[quote]Originally posted by roadrunner
but there is no indication of any letter allocation on the e-ticket.


Yeah, I hate the way a lot of airlines are 'dumbing down' their e-ticket reciepts. I noticed that when I recently booked ANZ.

They've basically let the marketing department get at them, and stripped them of a lot of useful information while 'fluffying' them up.

This makes it very hard to work out whether your fare is upgradeable, changeable, or mileage accruing.

One of the worst examples I know off the top of my head is TAP Portugal, where the accruing and non-accruing buckets in some partner's loyalty programmes are split across the 'fluffy' easy-to-understand marketing categories. So you're left with a situation that you know that booking the lowest category gets you nothing, while booking the next category up might get you something, as long as it's in one of the right buckets, but you don't find that out until after you've booked.

The other trick is just to post the stubs in after the flight doesn't accrue automatically, and see if your airline just accrues the miles anyway.

I know people who flew on a non-earning ANZ economy fare, but were members of a different *A mileage programme. They just posted their stubs into their *A airline and got full Y fare credit for them.

Mike


thanks for this Mike--that's rather what I thought but a challenge to figure out as VS say yes and NZ say no. I will save stubs and send them in to VS fingers crossed --if I don't receive VS miles for this flight I certainly won't bother booking NZ next July when I can fly others and earn full miles on other FF accounts. Gives pause to what the meaning of 'partner' is.

cheers,
meg