Welcome to the forum and Australia
Originally Posted by
mdmm
..Looks like really great stuff you're doing here. Would love to get your thoughts on this: I have been a LX/LH Senator now for a couple of years now and am moving to Sydney for the next months/year.
Questions
(1) What is your home airport? (will be SYD)
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Is Europe home for the long term ? (guessing based on your LX/LH Senator status)
If you are only going to live Australia for only a year QF is not you. So look at AA or even BA. AA has low miles for awards & no YQ, except in BA flights. QR is to join OneWorld soon (1st Oct?). But the details of the enhanced QR ffp with OW have not been published, but from the QR forum the ffp it is changing.
For upgrades the general rule is you can only upgrade a flight marketed (flight number) and operated (metal) by the airline of your freq flyer programe (no codeshares). QF upgrades are not confirmed until soon before the flight (a lottery). However as is the way with FFP's there are some (expensive) upgrade exceptions with AA/BA/IB with higher priced ecomony fares.