Originally Posted by
Darren870
Virgin Atlantic - 15,518
United Mileageplus - 6,895
Virgin Velocity - 56,252
Qantas - 9,012
BA Avios - 1,332
Delta Skymiles - 150 + (Soon miles from a RT Trip from SYD to JFK)
Basically its a mess.
Hi Darren
As others have said, your miles are spread too thinly over too many programs.
You need to rationalise things, and this means dropping at least half of your current programs.
The obvious one to start with is Qantas. There is no point in having both Qantas and BA. Burning off the 9k points on your upcoming domestic flight is the way to go (if you can). Then just forget about the program.
Which one(s) is/are worth continuing depends on who you are going to fly with in the US. There is too much crossover between Virgin Atlantic, Velocity and Delta. You need to pick one of these three if you are going to be flying Delta.
The only one in which you have anything approaching a useful balance is Velocity. Since Delta is revenue based (points awarded per dollar spent, rather than per mile flown), you may get more miles if you credit cheap Delta flights here. I'm not sure of the expiry rules, though.