Originally Posted by
MiscreantGoose
(1) What is your home airport?
WLG
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ?
Cheapest
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year?
About 30k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it?
none
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Frequent upgrades on travel, good award redemption rates
(6) Which routes do you fly most often?
To India mostly. I fly to Japan every other year. I’ll also fly to other places near New Zealand.
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure?
Pleasure.
Currently in India but will move to New Zealand in February. Thanks!
In New Zealand you are pretty much locked down with NZ, since the vast majority of internal flights do not earn anything anywhere else. However, in NZ you will find a reasonable number of credit cards and other offers to boost your status and award points, so if you do your homework you can get some benefits out of Airpoints.
You look for "upgrades", forget about them. If you make status with NZ you will receive upgrade vouchers, but that's about it.
Another option is to look into VA's program, but its earning/redemption possibilities within *A are very limited.