Originally Posted by
Rotodavid123
... I'm a NZ resident, but commute weekly to MEL. Also have a couple of J class trips to Europe each year and fly around 200k miles per year.
I used to fly predominantly *A on NZ, but have gotten tired of the continual FFP changes and given most of my business to QF. As others have expressed QF burn rates are poor so while I have quickly built up over 450k QF miles, I'm considering whether AA would be a better scheme going forward or at least to run alongside.
Yes for AA. Look in this recent thread.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qanta...yer-world.html
Sign up for the AA plat challenge [carefully check eligible TT fare buckets].
If any discount flights are non earning in AA put to QF or just enough to maintain QF gold for Q club access.
Can you get the AKL-LHR booked into QF ?
Once you have AA status the QF-EK arrangement may be of benefit when on QF flight number (QF-EK arrangement details not published)