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Nov 10, 2012 | 1:41 am

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wandering_fred

Join Date: Sep 2004

Location: country Western Australia

Programs: QF WP(LTS) - AA LTG(1MM)

Posts: 2,858

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Originally Posted by twoohfour

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)
Reply: LAX
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
Reply: <25K Coach
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ? ( First, Business, Economy etc.)
Reply: Economy
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Work / pleasure. Always can choose.
(5) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: US Domestic, going to be doing a lot of Asia travel 1st quarter 2013
(6) Do you have FFP status of any kind of OW or other airline at present? What is it? (AA Executive Platinum, QF Gold, UA 1K, LAN Comodoro, etc)
Reply: None. Have 60,000 BA avios, 75,000 Amex points, and 25,000 ultimate rewards points, but No Tier Points.
(7) What is most important to you in a FFP? (upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, extra baggage allowance, good award redemption rates, better award access, free - discounted lounge access, etc.)
Reply: Lounge access
(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: None

Thanks so much for any help!

Welcome to FT

I don't know enough about BAEC to really give you a full answer. If the flights you will be taking will credit to BA, perhaps remaining with that program will be in your long term advantage. Note though that with CX MPC Silver status (30K miles) will get you lounge access in HKG, something that is unlikely in any other OW program. I believe that there still is some cross fertilization between the BA and CX programs in terms of using miles in one program to upgrade the other's flights. Also AA is very generous in the mileage credit for their flights being credited to CX MPC/AsiaMiles.

Hope that helps.

Fred

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