Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
As above you are mixing loyalty programs. They do not match.
What ffp's are you a member of now?
Frequent spending (for ff miles) is not the same as frequent flying.
Airlines that fly USA/Canada to/from Australia (not from all airports to all airports)
- United UA (LAX SFO – SYD MEL) [Star Alliance]
- American Airlines AA (LAX - SYD) [OneWorld Alliance] (AS partner)
- Qantas QF (LAX SFO JFK DFW HNL YVR*– SYD BNE MEL) [OneWorld Alliance] (AS partner) {* seasonal}
- Jetstar JQ (HNL – SYD BNE)
- Delta DL (LAX – SYD) (VA & AS partner) [Skyteam Alliance]
- Virgin Australia VA (LAX – SYD BNE) (DL partner)
- Hawaiian HA (HNL – SYD BNE via Hawaii) (AA & VA partner)
- Air New Zealand NZ (LAX SFO IAH YVR via AKL) [Star Alliance]
- Fiji Airways FJ (LAX via Fiji) (QF, AA & AS partner)
- Air Tahiti Nui TN (LAX last segments on codeshares) (AA & DL partner)
- Air Canada AC (YYR – SYD, BNE from Jun 2016) [Star Alliance]
And others via Asia & Middle East
Not very many right now. For the last decade about 90% of my flying has been on Jetblue. I've only flown other airlines for Europe and Asia and the occasional domestic trip to somewhere they don't fly. I'd been getting about one free flight a year from a mixture of work travel and (mostly) Amex spending, but when they cancelled the Amex relationship I decided it was time to look at other options. By the time I made up my mind I didn't have a ton of time to research other options, so I moved to CSP before I really knew where we wanted to go, just knew that a lot of people seemed to think it was one of the best travel cards available. The Australia idea came later after some friends bugged us for never coming and seeing them. I haven't flown on any of the UR partner airlines in close to 20 years. Was planning on changing that, but so far haven't found any good options for places we're going on either of the domestic carriers.
Originally Posted by
Duke787
I would credit the AS flight to AS. There is an intra-Australia award chart on AS where a OW (on Qantas) is 12.5k in economy. I would work towards that award in the event you are planning any intra-Australia travel. You can also credit any DL or AA flights you take to AS (e.g., 2/3 of the US majors) and build your AS account to snag that intra-Australia
I would then keep your UR for eventual transfer for UA where saver Y is 80k/person roundtrip to/from Australia/New Zealand which is the best deal (and you can route via Asia in saver Y on *A partners if direct flight is unavailable).
Thanks for the suggestion. Seems like a good idea.