(1) What is your home airport?
Will be Adelaide (ADL)
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class?
probably 40-60k, economy
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ?
Discount Economy
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Choice likely constraint by lowest price, mostly work based (with private use)
(5) Which routes do you fly most often
Australia-Europe/US (at least 2x of which at least 1 to Europe/Germany)
(6) Do you have FFP status of any kind of OW or other airline at present? What is it?
A3 (*A Gold)
(7) What is most important to you in a FFP?
not sure, likely some form of redemption
(8) Preferred Airlines
regarding OW no real knowledge (*A Asian>European>US carriers)
In September I will be moving to Australia and due to related *A gaps in their network will likely switch at least some flying to OW. I am now trying to find out what is the best OW FFP for me. Will likely fly at least 2x a year to either Europe or US (maybe a third one as well) plus potentially some domestic or Asia. I believe that I can pick some of the details though since this is mostly work-based I have likely to take the cheapest economy option.
Until now I was mostly after status for the convenience since most of my flying was short-haul Europe plus a few TATL, but with the focus on very few (but very long) long-haul I am probably looking more for redemption value.
From reading this thread I gather that it comes down to AA vs QF, the first being better for economy flying, the second, well, because it's Australia...
Additionally AA's flight redemption look better, but QF does have the possibility to redeem for money value (and I might be able to get a CC)
Since I guess that most of the flights will be QF I might end up using both, credit to AA when the fare class turns out to be right, to QF if not.... Any other OW alternatives for this scenario ?
Additionally I have a RTW (mostly on QF numbers, though I think not an official OW one) in June with close to 25k miles, which should give me AA Gld but will only get me halfway to QF silver.