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Best airline (frequent flyer mile program) out of HK to the region?

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    Best airline (frequent flyer mile program) out of HK to the region?

    I am moving to HK and am trying to decide which airline alliance to subscribe to for my regional flights across Asia as I will be required to travel at least a week out of a month. I want to be able to accumulate a good number of flight miles and perhaps hotel miles on the same account if possible.

    Any one has thoughts on Oneworld versus Star Alliance?

    Thanks for your thoughts!


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    depends where you will frequently fly to...but my guess would be asiamiles

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    Oneworld is better for us coz of Cathay Pacific and Dragonair (based in HK)

    One way to look at it is, HK Credit cards will target Oneworld customers. You can rinse your credit card, fly CX on your biz trips and accumulate hotel points too all connected to Asia miles.

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    Which airline are you currently high status with? The miles are incidental - the value is in the status (lounge access, upgrades, extra luggage allowance, priority boarding) if you are travelling for business. If you have status already, stick with that one and transition to Cathay slowly. It's takes AGES to get status on Cathay if you only fly once a month.


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    HKG is a oneworld hub, just going by airlines which are based here.

    One of them sent one of their marketing chaps here yesterday to ask if anyone had signed up for their new competition. Sneaky lil fxxkers.


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    Have a look at Flyertalk, the topic has been done to death there.