I'm looking to book a one way flight to SYD in January (return already booked on BA with a CV in J). However, having done BA15 last year and not having enjoyed the early arrival into SYD (and subsequent struggle to stay awake until the evening) I'm struggling to decide what OW carrier to take that gets me in at a decent time in the evening. Currently QR's service that arrives into SYD at 1850 +1 day looks ok, but it's on the A380 which I'm not thrilled about. That said, booking into the Elite fare would give me 50% of the mileage as nTPs which would be pretty useful in towards retaining Silver next year (damn you BA).

Does anyone have any experience with other OW carriers on the route that allows for a decent arrival time? I could also look outside of OW (SQ has decent looking sectors, but of course no nTPs). Thanks!