Originally Posted by Kevin6589

Flying Blue: 0 miles
Emirates Skywards: 14,700 miles

(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: Emirates

Now here are some more details on what my plans are and what I would like to achieve:
- I live in Hong Kong but my family lives in Lyon, France. Once a year at least I go back home with Emirates by doing HKG-DBX-LYS-DBX-HKG.
I've only started using the Skywards program last year and have done two return trips HKG-LYS which gave me the current 14,700 miles I have. I have until 31 May 2016 to reach 25,000 miles if I want to achieve Silver status.
I used to fly Air France, that's why I have a Flying Blue account but my miles have long expired.

- In 2016, I would like to go back to Lyon at least once. On top of that I want to visit a friend in San Francisco, another friend in New York City, and maybe go to Vietnam or Myanmar for a long weekend.

- My ultimate goal is to reach a point where I maintain a status where I always get access to lounges in airports, priority airport services and sometimes upgrades to business class for me and my girlfriend when I do international flights.

- From what I see and read, I feel like the Qantas frequent flyer program will fit my destinations (please let me know if I'm wrong), as it will allow me to use Emirates to go home to Lyon and Cathay Pacific to fly to the US. For local flights around Asia, I'm sure partner airlines of Qantas will be able to bring me there.

- I don't mind doing a mileage run and going out of my way to add several cities to my trip before reaching a destination if that means I can keep a flyer status for a longer time. I still don't know yet how to find the best mileage run so if someone can point me somewhere that'd be great.

- One last question, if I decide to change FFP what can I do with my current miles on Emirates? Will I just lose them or can I transfer them to Qantas for instance?