With the build out the Chasing Mall Points tools (currently still in beta), I have been looking at the tables and here’s a few facts about distance based programs that has been loaded (Qatar Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways, LAN, Malaysia Airlines, British Airways, Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways, Asiana Airlines, and Virgin Australia):
After you see how there are 45 partners and how awesome the Malaysia Airlines program is, be sure to check out Travel Is Free’s post maximizing it.
If you’d like to link to the infographic you can copy and paste this code:
Sorry, could you upload a higher resolution version? On click it’s barely readable.
I agree with the commentator above, it would be helpful if you could have a bigger version. I cannot read this one. Looks like a great idea though!
Thank you both – just updated the post to include a link to the PDF version of it as we sort it out
A better image has been posted with the PDF link removed, but if you’d like the PDF, let me know and I can email it to you
Holy Edward Tufte! This chart is unclear.
It took me five minutes to figure out that the horizontal bars indicate how many of the nine distance-based programs can buy flights on a particular listed airline, and the planes diagram indicates how many partners one can transfer out of a program. The listing of Virgin Australia having nine partners, when Virgin Australia is noted to have no partners elsewhere, also threw me.
I’m sorry, I’ve been staring at this for a while now, and still I’m not sure how I will use this to minimize my mileage usage on an award. Some further explanation would be helpful.
I think when the app is launched it will answer a lot of questions. In the meantime – what is unclear so we can work towards making it clearer and easier to understand. Thanks!