Okay so no body really cares about this programme, but he could earn 100%miles in L class on both airlines on SWISS TRAVEL CLUB. Okay there's no status, but the earning and redeeming possibilities are great...the only change he has to go through is maybe change the return LAX-SYD-PER on QF to either LAX-NRT on AA and NRT-PER on QF , or to CX entirely.
See:
http://travelclub.swiss.com/FFP/CDA/...1_0_1_,00.html
And click under "Detailed Conditions" for booking classes.