Originally Posted by
egoode
Hi, I mainly fly one world but about to do a lot of flights around Central Asia with Turkish airlines as doing some travel before I move back to Australia and thought it might be worth joining a *A programme.
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(1) What is your home airport? Currently London will be Melbourne from Oct.
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy? Business
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? <50k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? Qantas Gold
(5) What is most important to you in an FFP? Award Seat Availability probably for Air New Zealand flights
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? Unsure what my flight plans will be like once I move to Australia. Maybe more domestic or to New Zealand. Longer haul likely to be Asian countries.
(7) Preferred Airlines little experience of any *a usually fly one world. On long haul I flights like the lie flat seats.
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? pleasure
October is some time away given how ffp's can change at short notice.
SQ (Star Allaince) is a ff partner of Virgin Australia VA. Unusually you can move ff miles from one to the other (albeit at 1:1.35 ratio)
Be mindful of expiry
Miles/Points that Do and Don't Expire. Click to open the wiki. SQ have a 3 year hard expiry.
Air NZ has a (poor) reputation of releasing few awards seats to partners. Nominally awards are open to all ff partners, but do not expect to get Air NZ award seats. Air NZ freq flyers get NZ airpoints which can be used on any flight instead of cash. Air NZ ffp is extremely bad, unless you live in NZ and can get airpoints from non flying activities or only fly Air NZ.
If flying Aust NZ there are many options and use of ff miles can be poor value