Both are potentially even more interesting than watching a stampede of turtles overrun a Wendy’s drive through.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lufthansa and ITA<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Lufthansa has already said that ITA’s Volare frequent flyer program will be merged into Miles & More<\/a>, and elite status will transfer too. I expect that by Q3 the frequent flyer programs will integrate, though that’s not set in stone. When the integration happens it means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foreign Star Alliance Gold status will get you access to the United Club when flying United domestically, free-checked bags, priority boarding, and a few lesser benefits<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ITA Volare is an interesting program because partner earning is based on class of service and mileage flown<\/a>, not on ticket price. That means with really cheap Delta or Aeromexico tickets, you can mileage run way your way into Lufthansa Miles & More miles which can be used to redeem for Swiss Air First Class; the trad<\/a> mileage run, it turns out, isn’t dead yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Asiana never really recovered from COVID-era cutbacks, and its reputation was already suffering after the crash of Asiana 214<\/a> even before COVID. Facing Asiana’s bankruptcy, the Korean government approved a merger and EU regulators did in November too<\/a>, leading to the deal closing last month<\/a>. You’ve heard what this means before in another song:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Asiana doesn’t status match, so if you don’t already have status there I can’t help you much. But, turning Asiana Club miles into Korean SkyPass miles is really interesting, because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Keep your eyes open for Bonvoy transfer bonuses, there’s opportunity here in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Happy Monday friends!<\/p>\n\n\n Next time: McGold status arbitrage for fun and profit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are a couple of interesting airline mergers that were approved in late 2024: Both are potentially even more interesting than watching a stampede of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airlines","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11021,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015\/revisions\/11021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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