Originally Posted by SYDreamer

(1) What is your home airport?
SYD
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Y, sometimes C (work related)
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year?
>50k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it?
No.
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Lounge when in Y and redemption (outright C and upgrades Y to C)
(6) Which routes do you fly most often:
For work it looks like it will be 2x SYD-AKL-SYD (Y), 2x SYD-SFO-SYD (C), 2x SYD-DEL-SYD (Y, maybe C), 2x SYD-SIN-SYD (Y, maybe C), possibly PVG, also SIN possibly combined with DEL trip.
Personal will either be a SYD-Europe-SYD or a SYD-Asia-SYD. Pay Y, would like to upgrade or if have enough points, redeem for C.
(7) Preferred Airlines
Stuck with UA as only carrier direct SYD-SFO-SYD. Could fly NZ via AKL but UA looks cheaper generally.
Other trips SQ preferred to TG.
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure?
Both (see above).

Hi all

I need a Star Alliance membership which suits my current situation. I will be travelling a bit for work for the foreseeable future. I have an Amex which means (in Australia) that I can transfer the points from that to SQ or TG (can also go to NZ, but from what I understand, NZ FF program is rubbish).

Main goal is to get Star Gold, but also be able to ‘partner’ my FF account with my Amex points. With the points, hope to redeem for upgrades on personal trips OR get outright C tickets.

Slight chance that the Singapore flights could switch to Oneworld if cheaper on BA/QF or I can get Premium Economy on these flights (in which case I’d do that over SQ Y).

Let me know if you need any more info. Basically it is down to SQ or TG (plus possibly dump some points into A3 for Gold - which I think I could do on a SYD-SFO-SYD even in Y).

Thanks
SYDreamer