Originally Posted by
fli2wurk
Hi all. Haven't travelled in awhile but now starting again regularly and need advise on whether to focus on the QF or AA program. Here's my info:
(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Decent FF redemption for economy intl flights, priority services, lounge access...
For redemptions AA is far better than QF, and no AA award cash surcharge, unless a BA/IB award flight. QF has high cash surcharges. Look at
post 330 for a comparison.
Originally Posted by
bhomburg
..Seeing you live in the US, getting status on AA is just a quick one-day run to anywhere with a connection away, should those AA-on-QF-tickets-segments NOT count towards status (I'd pose this question again in the pre-merger AA forum for more input, but I sincerely believe they will count).
That'd be money well spent: Once you have attained Platinum (after the second PER flight), each subsequent trip there will net you 55,000 redeemable AA miles. AA miles are generally pretty versatile and valuable in comparison, much more so than QF miles.
Look at the AA plat challenge for faster AA status. (links in post 1 of this thread). You will need 4 flights with AA flight numbers. As you are flying business class AA status does nothing for those QF or QR flights, but you earn more miles. QF flight numbers are valid for the AA challenge. QR & CX are not
http://flyerguide.com/index.php/Challenge_%28AA%29
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...-platinum.html
AA, QF and EK are ff partners of AS
http://www.alaskaair.com/content/mil...ePlan-partners
AA and EK are ff partners of QF. But EK flights are non earning for status (No SC's) For EK flights you get (some) QF points (miles). QF recently reduced the earning on non QF flights.
Go with
AAdvanatge