Originally Posted by jacobprince

..I live in Edinburgh but my partner's family lives in Cape Town, and I know I will be making consistent journeys once or twice a year for the foreseeable future. I am a student at the moment and so price will usually be the defining factor for me, but I am interested in building up points to redeem on travel. I monitor flight prices quite often, and over the past year Qatar has been consistently cheap along with Turkish Airlines. I travelled with Qatar recently and thought the product was great (it was also only one stop), but I'm looking for some advice as to whether I should be investing my money in another alliance. BA, KLM and Air France offer the most convenient itineraries but are often expensive, whilst QR can be £400 return off-peak.
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(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in an airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
(AA Executive Platinum, UA 1K, LAN Comodoro, etc)
Reply: BA: Blue (11,000 and no tier points) QR: Burgundy (8,500 and 85 tier points, so over half way to silver) UA: no status (9,500 and no tier points)
(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply:Recently travelled on QR EDI-CPT, it was an excellent experience in economy I thought, even better than BA.