Originally Posted by
Wasabi Tofu
If your boss has a JAL credit card, and not a JGC member,
you had better try to be JGC member, not to try AA plat exec.
If you become JGC member, you keep paying JAL credit card annual fee, then you automatically get an oneworld sapphire membership(you need 0 mile for renewal). Even better, you need only 80,000 qualified miles for oneworld emerald status.
With sapphire leve status of JAL, you earn 100% bonus miles for JAL flight, and some kind of upgrade certificates that CX does not offer.
If your boss travels US a lot, AA is an option, but, travels within Japan and some longhauls, JMB is a good option, IMHO.
I thought maybe he could get JGC then defect to Cathay as then he could get Lifetime JGC (in theory till it goes). He`s already said he doesnt like going via NRT to get back to Australia and refuses to fly Qantas so i think Cathay is the way forward.
Cathay H class gets 70% with JAL so do that a couple of return trips should get him on a flying start towards Sapphire.
What`s wrong with AA?