Originally posted by terenz:
I think Asiamiles would be the most useful program. LAN Chile might be another good one. Need to pay for QF and I understand the award levels are rather costly (even if you account that you will earn kilometres). EI TAB seems to be too close to BA EC UK/Global to be of any use. Don't IB's is any good. Not sure about AY.
What do you mean by "too close to be of any use"?
Also, if you are doing to challenge in C or F (especially F) you should look seriously at QFs program. Sure it'll cost you about US$45 but for elite status, a C fare is 2 times more valuable and F 3 times more valuable than Economy. If you get status you don't need to pay that account service fee either.
This is kind of like a 200% and 300% status bonus which is unrivaled in 1W (and similar to LH). This is how my father qualifies so easily for QF Gold - flying Business class at the amount he does means he gets the Tier Credits by the bucketload.
One major negatvie for using it for this promotion - QF are only giving up to 100,000 points even though a point is roughly a km. Lan Chile is instead doing the km/mile conversion and giving 160,000 kms. If I do end up flying off for this promotion, QF will be getting a stern email asking for that to be changed
