Sellty Welcome to FT Aussie branch
You can sign up to most ffp's with an Australian address. British Airways is one exception that does not Australian / NZ address. May be others

AA (and others) works QF flights. Many if us in Oz use AA ffp due to better award cost

Virgin Australia is a partner or EY, DL and some others. The VA ffp is better than QF ffp in some ways.

Getting points/miles from Australian credit cards to USA airline ffp's is limited.

All FFP's are all different.
- Frequent spending (credit card miles/points) is not the same as frequent flying
- Many ffp's have a requirement you fly 4 flights with then to get status.
- Effectively you cannot move miles/points from 1 ffp to another. So you are stuck with VA points
- Be careful of miles expiry.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/infor...help-here.html

Have a look here http://www.australianfrequentflyer.com.au/community

Note: (for those not in Aussie)
NAB = National Australia Bank
Velocity = Virgin Australia's ffp (not the same as other the Virgin airline ffp's)