Originally Posted by
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(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Upgrades, lounge access, good award redemption rates, priority services
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
(<25000, 25000-50000, >50000 miles - <25, 25-50, >50 flights?)
< 25k, <10 flights a year
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Economy/cheapest
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Yes, for pleasure
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
KUL-LHR, KUL-CWL, within Europe
(6) What is your home airport?
Kuala Lumpur - KUL
(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
Enrich Blue
(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
MAS/Qatar
With only a few cheap flights you are not going to get status, lounge access(by status if flying economy) or priority services(comes with status). Upgrades will be hard to impossible.
Listing CWL(Cardiff) I guess you have flown QR KUL-DOH-CWL
For upgrades the general rule is you can only upgrade a flight marketed (flight number) and operated (metal) by the airline of your frequent flyer programme (no codeshares) with your airline ffp upgrade instrument (e.g. SWU, miles) or complementary with status (if applicable) or ff miles/cash co pay. All subject to the t&c's of your frequent flyer program and your paid ticket. Low cost tickets are often not eligible for upgrades. Cross airline upgrades are uncommon in OneWorld. If cross airline upgrades are offered they tend to require a very expensive base fare and have t&c’s.
For in frequent flyers need to mindful of expiry
Miles/Points that Do and Don't Expire. Click to open the wiki.
QR - MH both have hard expiry. Use them or loose them.
Better to select flights based on price & schedule, and treat ff miles(if any) as a bonus that may or may not be able to be used.
The grass in not always
greener on the other side