Hi, my partner and I have a few flights coming up this year and I wanted some advice/validation from the experts on here. I apologise in advance for the length of this post, but I want to provide everyone with as much info as possible.

We are both members of BAEC and QFF, although we have status with neither. We are both based in SYD, and have upcoming flights to LHR via SIN (BA16/BA12) in J in April and returning (BA15) in May in F. In between, we’re flying to VIE and ARN (all on BA in Y).

In August, we’re planning on flying to ORD, in Y, either via LAX or DFW on QF/AA.

My QFF year expires on 30 Apr, while my partner’s expires on 31 Mar. My BAEC year expires on 8 Feb, while my partner’s expires on 8 Jul.

If we credit all the miles for our SYD-SIN-LHR-VIE-LHR-ARN-LHR-SYD, we will earn 700TPs and therefore become BA Silver (OW Sapphire)? If so, we will get lounge access in DFW/LAX in August when we’re transiting to/from ORD even though we’re only travelling in Y?

I wanted to credit our ORD flights to our QFF accounts as we don’t travel enough (and in premium cabins sufficiently) to make BA Gold, and accruing QFF miles may make it easier to redeem/upgrade etc since we’re based in SYD.

It would’ve been handy to credit all our BA flights to our QFF accounts (as we already have about 240k QFF points between us), but from what I worked out, I would only get to QF Silver (OW Ruby) (as my QFF membership year expires on 30 Apr, thereby resetting my SCs back to zero from 1 May) while my partner will go straight to QF Gold (OW Sapphire) only upon our return from ORD as the LAX/DFW-SYD would be the 4th eligible QF flight (plus the SCs earned on that flight will be sufficient to cross the 700SC threshold). Assuming I have calculated this correctly, neither one of us will have access to any lounge while we wait for our connecting flight to and from LAX/DFW. Also, getting to OW Sapphire, we will have lounge access for any future OW flights for the remainder of the year?

If my understanding represented above is incorrect, please set me straight. Also, if anyone has a different opinion on where to credit our miles please also share your thoughts.

Many thanks in advance for all of your help.