Originally Posted by
TiredDoc
Thanks Calchas
I dont have any tiers on BA, AA, CX or any other one world carrier.
Have enough CX miles on MPO, but got them from credit card spending so hence no status. Do lots ot intra europe flights where CX Asia miles not get the best priority for availability so thought would throw some flights in the BA Avios program and take AA challenge to get Sapphire tier status quickly and the balance collect on CX Asia miles.
But do you think it would be better to go up tiers in CX, BA or use the AA challenge in my case?
Thanks again
It's hard to say. I'm definitely not an expert on CX and I only know a little about AA.
If you're doing a lot of revenue F and J flying, BA rewards that quite well, I think more than AA rewards their own flyers for F and J. But if you often travel in Y, then you may find AA is better, particularly because they offer lots of upgrade instruments especially on AA domestic flights. Also I believe AA rewards Y flyers quite well, whereas on BA, Y flights earn practically nothing. BA does have their "reward flight saver" scheme in Europe which is a good use of Avios. BA & AA work well together, so you get a lot of BA Avios points for flying on AA, and vice versa. However CX doesn't play well with BA, you don't tend to get many Avios for flying on CX.
I would say that until you reach top tier status in one programme, it is best to pick one programme and concentrate your earning there.