Originally Posted by
percysmith
Well if your second home/favourite destination is LHR then you're a lot better off with J availability.
I did a random search for next May. J availability filled my screen.
My family's second home is Syd. J's hopeless. So I price miles based on Y
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/catha...ying-club.html (and end up with $0.102/mile), and am thinking of getting VFC instead where PE looks a bit more viable as a redemption option.
My colleagues from YVR are worse, they get next to no availability for Y or J to go back. *A's not much better they say. So they don't redeem miles with their credit cards. And if they somehow come across AM from business travel or holidays, they redeem regional holidays like Shanghai expo on Y.
Well LHR isn't my favorite destination per se, but I think thats where the value is, for miles redemption. North American redemptions are viable too, and if you have enough miles to go in F, can even try the new F on JAL to JFK.
Vancouver redemptions are traditionally quite tough because its a very popular route. Dont really have any advice to give except fly to SFO or LAX and grab a codeshare upto YVR?
Perhaps if J is hopeless on CX to SYD, go with J or F on Qantas?