Korean Job Discussion Forums

[MollyBloom]

JUST joined after all these years. I never really had to take Korean Air too much in the past, but I'll be back for many years this go around. I read about the access to the lounge; is the access worth it? I've never been in one. Thinking about getting that Korean Air Visa credit card though....15,000 miles starting out and double miles added to skypass when taking a KA flight. I just hope for free upgrades

[pkang0202]

I"m a Skypass Member. Never been in the lounge though. My expat platinum card gives me access to the lounge so I'll try it out when I fly this March.

I have about 60,000 miles and that gets me a free domestic ticket in Korea. So, after flying across the world a few times, and having a Skypass credit card, I've racked up enough miles to fly to Busan or Jeju from Seoul.

Awesome.

[methdxman]

I have a Skypass card from Korean Air as well as Skypass mileage from Samung Card and my KEB Card. How do I go about combining all of these?

[shostahoosier]

I thought it 70,000 miles to fly to abroad.

Its really easy to rack up points if you're here for more than one contract and from what I understand (dont quote me on this as I might have misunderstood), Skypass miles last for like 10 years.

[methdxman]

[Caffeinated]

When I fly Korean Air I put my miles on my Delta card (both on SkyTeam but I accumulated Delta miles first) just to avoid having miles all over the place. When I fly Asiana I put those on my ANA card as both are part of Star Alliance. Only needed 17,000 miles plus $60 to fly to Incheon-Sapporo return for lunar new year using those miles on ANA.

[liveinkorea316]

To upgrase is almost as many miles as a free ticket.

For example, it takes 70,000 skymiles to get a free ticket to the states and 60,000 skymiles to get a free upgrade to prestige class.

In context, you would need to fly return to LA 3.5 times to get one free flight or 3 times to get an upgrade

[Lee Myung Bak]

[orosee]

If you can use Asiana instead of KAL, you can get a lot of benefits much earlier. I'm already at Diamond level with less than 50,000 miles, which seems to allow me access to the business class lounge and lots of extra kilos of luggage (20 or 30 on top of the normal allowance, if I understood their maths).

Plus Asiana is part of Miles&More, where you find the commonly used airlines and nust just the rare exotics.

Only drawback with Asiana is when you're taller than 5' because they have in my experience much less legroom than KAL. Plus they seem to have installed metal boxes for life vests under every second seat now which means that you better have only one leg. Still a great deal for one-legged midgets.

I was very happy with my last few KAL flights though; the entertainment system is top notch and I found USB power connectors on every cattle seat. Plus they use standard headphone plugs so you can use your own comfortable headphones rather than the cheap itchy airline ones.

KAL has a very low allowance for extra luggage at the basic skypass level (5 instead of 10kg) but last time I managed to smile my way down to only 3kg excess charge for a 34kg piece.

Anyway I avoided KAL for 7 years after they left me stranded for two days in Mumbay despite me having a reservation (I also avoided India for 5 years), but these days I like their service etc.

[rkc76sf]

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[redaxe]

I'm a Morning Calm member and I have 69,948 miles. 52 freaking miles short of a free international ticket. I feel like they must have done that on purpose to make me have to pay to fly with them again before getting my free ticket.

[pkang0202]

[madoka]