Personally I am still shocked at the number of people staying with QFF with all the recent announcements. If your a frequent shopper, just use your QFF points for upgrades, but otherwise there should be a strong instinct by many to look at other programmes for crediting of flights if you want to stick with oneworld. AA followed by looking at CX and MH should all be strong options to those of there sick of the fleecing. QF is going to continue with largely negative changes if people stick around. Sadly it also means I am less likely to see QF metal from now on and will probably use CX and MH when going back to Aus or simply going to Asia.

It's interesting because here in Europe AF/KL started the first of the big negative announcement with the 1st April changes a few years back. LH then stuck the knife in even harder (to the point where I now won't consider them as they neither offer a best in class product or provide points to compensate), however BA has actually improved their programme making it in my case the obvious choice (otherwise I probably would have picked AA).