Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
Yes - a good medium to long term plan.
Reads as if you do not fly enough to get high status (I note you have QR silver). For annual holiday/leisure traveller IMHO what you have done is best. The $$ mean more than the freq flyer points.
On two pionts you are very correct. I don't fly enough for Status and the $$ are important to me.
I find getting out of Oz a killer, so expensive, specially when you throw Biz into the mix. If one can use OW miles to get up to Asia, in my experience, prices are just about halved. QR Silver just happened - one Biz trip, DPS to JFK (Rtn), job done. Now I'm addicted to the 5* treatment.
I need to do some reading. AA miles would get me out of Perth on QF and now MH, with QR to come. The points accumulation period (QR = 5 years) is important to me as well, being only a annual flyer - it gives a lengthy time frame to plan the next adventure. I learnt with TG (the hard way) that they only do 3 years.
Boy, do I need to do some reading. Thanks for your help.