V-Flyer

So next year I'll likely be making about 6 or more transatlantic trips, and the easiest route seems to be to EWR via CDG on Delta metal. However the Air France fares on codeshare consistently come in at 60-80% of the Delta marketed fare.

However, if I book through the AF website, I can only choose to have my loyalty points added to AF or Delta (or one of the others that I will never ever use), not FC. If I book via Delta I can choose FC. I am not minded to think that paying over the odds is going provide value just to accrue FC miles when it looks like I can comfortably achieve Delta Gold and get all the benefits of that.

I was wondering though, if I book it through AF will it create a booking on Delta for me? If that's the case could I then log into Delta and change my loyalty points to be pointed at my FC account?

Even if I can I'm thinking that I might be better off just getting Skymiles since it will be rare that I get to use Virgin due to the problems with connections to LHR and thus I might as well just blow all my FC miles on a Y to UC upgrade if ever I take enough time off work to be able to fly VS metal.

The complication is that the flight does not from what you say have a VS codeshare number and that is one of the criteria for earning miles on non VS metal.

Also complicating is that VS isn't in sky miles.

Personally I'd go for saving the cash rather than earning miles but then again I'm weird in thinking that!

Ah that's easy then. I'll earn SkyMiles from the AF booking and win-win.

Don't forget to look into a Delta status match challenge if you have status with another airline.

http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/ ... lenge.html

Sadly the only airline I have any status with is Monarch :(