Originally Posted by
Yuki178
Hi, with my recent move, reduced traveling post-Covid and a decline in CX's service levels, I am looking to get a status match or perhaps start from scratch (or which level I can get into) with another program. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
(1) What is your home airport?
MAN/LHR
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy?
C, I for UK-Asia; O, Q, K for Intra-Europe
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year?
35K to 50K
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it?
CX Diamond (OW Emerald)
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access, etc.)
Priority Service (e.g. extra luggage), lounge access
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? (US Domestic, Transpacific, etc.)
UK to Asia (HKG still main, though may also do NRT or ICN)
UK to Europe (e.g. FRA, CPH)
(7) Preferred Airlines
OW still seems to be best, but am wondering if I should go for *A being in Europe; otherwise, no strong preference other than to move away from CX. I assume status match/challenge with another OW program will not be possible though.
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you choose your airline and class of service?)
Mixed - full control over airline/class of service
On your LON/MAN-HKG trips, are you able to connect? If so, one roundtrip in Business, connecting in DOH in each direction, would earn you 2,000 Iberia Plus Elite Points; 2,250 Elite Points are needed for oneworld
Sapphire. (If you were able to add a MAN-LON segment in Business to the trip, each one of those segments would be worth an additional 75 Elite Points.)
Otherwise, LHR-HKG-LHR nonstop would earn you just 1,000 Elite Points in the Iberia Plus program.
Edited to add: If you were to connect in DOH and credited to BAEC, you would earn 560 BAEC Tier Points. To reach BAEC Silver (oneworld Sapphire), you would need a total of 600 Tier Points, plus 4 "qualifying segments" in any class of service. If you were to fly BA MAN-LHR-FRA-LHR-MAN, that would get you the four qualifying segments (and 20 Tier Points, if flown in Economy).