Originally Posted by
brunos
Hello malct.
You seem very confused while the issue is very simple.
When you fly CX, or any other OW airline, you do not need to open an account with CX.
Just book as a guest on CX website and enter your QR, BA or other FFP number.
You can earn avios using either a QR, BA or AY FFP. Other airlines (like CX FFP) use a different currency and you cannot transfer those to avios.
As you mention, S fare class does not earn any avios on QR FFP but it does on BA FFP.
As you can easily transfer avios between these three programs, I would suggest that you create a BA FFP and later transfer those avios to your QR FFP.
Both myself and my wife have a BA account and flew with them last year which was a nightmare after our first flight was cancelled from Glasgow to Heathrow and we missed our onward flight to Doha and we were transferred onto Thai air, luckily we claimed via the EU261, regards membership of Cathay, I am happy with joining with the perks of cancelling 24 hours before the flight and 48 hour online check in, so might get a decent seat free of charge. At the moment we are members of Emirates, Qatar, BA and now Cathay and we do make use of the points