Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
Only 1 choice: AA. Look at
post 330. You will get AA miles on QF flights. But check if an
eligible earning booking class. Some cheap fares were not, but with a change to booking class earning last year most (all?) are.
AS is an option as QF, AA & DL are partners:
http://www.alaskaair.com/content/mil...ePlan-partners
Other airlines to Australia (from LAX) are
- United (Star Alliance)
- Virgin Australia (DL & VA are ff partners)
- Delta (DL & VA are ff partners)
- Air NZ (via AKL) (Star Alliance)
- Hawaiian (AA ff partner)
- Fiji Airways (AA ff partner)
and many via Asia or the Middle East
You will need to careful about QF points expiry. 18 months without eligible activity they expire. Use them if you can. Can be keep alive by several non flying ways including hotel, rental car, asking QF for a new ff card(1000 points) or when in Australia signing up to
www.everydayrewards.com.au and then spending $31 on food or booze
Thanks for the info!
I checked the route I usually book and the booking classes are O and Q. So if I credited the miles to AA then I'd get 25% of the miles? NY to Sydney is ~10k miles, so I'd get 2500 miles. Doesn't seem worth it, right?
Alaska Air's Mileage Plan seems to look better with 1 mile = 1pt. NY to Sydney is 42.5k miles + $40, compared to Qantas' 64k miles. But it looks like they only have 1 credit card with an annual fee, so it's not as easy to earn miles through spending compared to AA. (one of my goals was to rack up points with credit card signup bonuses/spending)
Not sure my conclusions are correct though. Where do you think I should go from here? Are there better options with the Star Alliance?
And QF points expiry is not a problem, I use my everyday rewards every time I go back. ^