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Old Mar 9, 2026 | 10:05 pm
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Originally Posted by iker
Good morning. I need help determining where to post mileage for upcoming trips on Oneworld.

A bit of context: My partner and I relocated from San Francisco to Auckland, and our draw on United and *A isn't what it used to be. Before moving at the start of the year, we would travel a couple of times a year, once to either South Africa or Kenya for safaris, once to Europe, and typically once to Boston to visit family. I flew on either Swiss or Turkish for the international segments and on United to Boston. We purchase business class tickets for all of our flights and first on United's domestic flights. We don't like having to rely on the whimsy of non-existent upgrades. We made one exception when we moved to Auckland because the one-way business class fare from SFO-AKL was $45,000 USD. I simply couldn't justify the delta when economy seats on Hawaiian were $450 per person.

We have about $300,000 Mileage Plus miles which I'll try to use to get a business class award ticket for last-minute travel should the need ever arise.

For more context, going forward, we plan to do one flight to the US, visiting SF, NYC and Boston, and one trip to Europe, and one trip to either South Africa or Kenya. Travel will be in business class.
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For travel to Europe, we could fly QF, CX, QR, QF/BA or maybe JL. To Africa, I suppose it'd be QF, QR or CX. To US, AS, AA, QF
How long will you be in NZ for?
A few months/years or for ever?

As an aside Air NZ (Star Alliance) is incredibly stingy about release premium awards to other ffp's. And 2 pax even less
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Guessing the HA-AS flight could not credit to AAdvantage. Did you check? Small amounts of ff miles are basically orphaned. Little to nil value.

For travel to South Africa or Kenya the middle east carriers are likely to be best. QF fly SYD to Jo-berg. You probably will end up on QR Qatar.

Do not fly OW just for ff miles/avios/points. Other airlines may have better price - schedules.
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