Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
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
Sorry for the delay in responding I've been travelling a lot the last 6 weeks. Thanks so much for your suggestion I didn't realise I could convert SQ miles to VA that's great to know and I think that might be my best option. I'm not really interested in status as I will most likely remain travelling OneWorld on future trips but with so many J tickets coming up on Star Alliance Airlines I felt like it would be worth seeing if I might get close to a domestic award flight in Australia or NZ.