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Old Sep 6, 2013 | 4:05 am
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mdmm
 
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Sydney
Programs: LH/LX Senator
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Originally Posted by Mwenenzi
Welcome to the forum and Australia

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.
Thank you very much for the warm welcome and these insights Mwenenzi! I'm planning on anywhere from a minimum of ~7 months to a year and was therefore also toying with the idea of AA. The MH flight won't count towards an AA challenge though I understand https://www.aa.com/i18n/AAdvantage/e...iaairlines.jsp - so starting from scratch it is then?
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