Originally Posted by
malmostoso
Originally Posted by
rafaelmagu
Am planning a round the world trip this year and would appreciate some help in finding out what's the best FFP to join
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access, etc.) Upgrades and lounge access first
I think living in NZ you are pretty much stuck with Airpoints. Most if not all cheap economy fares on NZ do not earn anything in the "easy" programs (OZ, TK, A3), and at the end of the day when you consider you can earn status points through credit card spending it is not impossible to achieve gold status.
You should carefully check the NZ board on FT and try simulating how many status points you would receive for your RTW trip. With the RTW trip you could conceivably obtain gold status with OZ (40k miles) if you choose your booking classes wisely, but maintaining it might be very tricky if you only fly economy in/on NZ.
Originally Posted by
rafaelmagu
Thanks for the response! Will head that way and brush up on booking classes too.
With low cost fares your chances of earning status is not good. Your chances of upgrades is 1% at best. Need to be realistic.
If flying RTW if properly constructed few flights will be on Air NZ. From a freq flyer miles perspective the less NZ flights the better. ANZ Airpoints is a very poor fp, unless flying Air NZ a lot, including NZ domestic flights
Far better to join another Star ffp (not Air NZ). But check the booking class
You do not say how the RTW will be done: segment by segment or a structured alliance RTW? OneWorld also has RTW products. In my view the OW *ONE* 16 segment is better than the distance based offered by Star & OW.
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...t-faqs-33.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/infor...help-here.html