Originally Posted by
jeremyah
New to the forum and glad to be onboard!
So my job requires me to fly alot over the world and i have recently signed up to Lufthansas Miles and More program to cover all my Star Alliance flights. Now im looking into cover the One World flights. My first choice was Finnair, but it seems to be quite high rates on using award miles for upgrades and such. So im debating on maybe switching to British Airways instead. Not sure tho! Its quite hard to give much information, since i fly alot and its all over the place pretty much. Im also new to all this frequent flyer deal, so im hoping to get help from the pro's!
So im pretty much wondering what you guys think is the best One World program?
Welcome to FT Jeremy
At least at the moment I think the consensus would be AA has the best earn to burn ratio. I have had no major issues in obtaining award flights with AA or the other partners, though I tend to not book at the last minute.
The BA program is useful to upgrade BA flights but award flights run into fuel surcharge costs. The QF program is more expensive in both earned miles and surcharges for awards but easy to earn status if flying long haul business. The CX program may be harder to earn status but the higher level status members are treated very well. My opinion is award mileage costs there are middle to high, but as with BA upgrades are quite useful.
For the smaller OW members you would need to read (carefully) the relevant program website pages.
Happy wandering
Fred