Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
Interesting answers to the questions. With the amount of flying you do getting & maintaining high tier status with multiple airlines should be possible. Aegen for Star Alliance status is popular with some people who do not live in USA. Miles from credit cards is significant for many here on FT, but less cc opportunities for many non USA residents.
AA is the default choice for many. Good earn/burn and upgrade opportunities/instruments on AA metal. Look at the AA Plat challenge.
Very few people post on the in & outs of QR FFP, but is seems basic & archaic. For an upgrade request you email them & hope. But as QR are in OW you can fly with them but credit to another FFP
Both AA & QF have multi stop "OneWorld awards". Unsure what RTW awards other OW FFP's offer. Look at FT airline forums & web sites. While EK is an QF partner hard to recommend QF for someone not living in Australia.
Alaska may be of interest to you. Wide range of partners, including EK
http://www.alaskaair.com/content/mil...ePlan-partners
Others will have different opinions & suggestion's
Thanks!! It's hard enough to keep up with the *A rules let alone those of EK and now possibly another alliance.
I still quite like *A but Aeroplan has become a pretty bad program in my mind which is why I'm considering switching FFPs. My girlfriend will be in Australia for the next year and Malaysian is the cheapest way to get there business which is why I was thinking it may now be time to try OW.
EK is a horrible program but I end up having to fly EK for work quite a bit so I'm going to try and maintain EK Gold for sure.
From my limited knowledge of OW to date, it looks like AA is the program I need to consider if I'm going to start flying OW metal. Do they status match or allow for challenges?
So many different computations and considerations!!! Arg...