Originally Posted by Dave Noble
I would say that since in both cases it would earn 47% of the renewal requirements for Sapphire status, that the amount and value of the miles earned would have been far better accrued to AA )
I agree totally, Dave. No question I could make AA Platinum on a challenge. However, imo, there is only a small chance I could retain Platinum based on my current travel spending. I accidentally happened to buy a K-class ticket this year, but more often have been in L or similar.
For a person like me flying discount economy, crediting to QF is clearly better for retaining status. The FF miles are a bonus.
I think what I need to consider is comparing the extra cost of higher priced tickets to retain AA Platinum (consistently buy at least K and possibly buy tickets on AA not QF/BA, and the cost in time and money of having to periodically do a mileage run in NA because AA does not have a good record of renewing folks who do not meet the official criteria) versus the extra value of the miles obtained on AA.
1. Any suggestions on how to approach that?
2. This year, for example, Mrs. Jrobin used my QF points to travel YYZ-MEL-NAN-YYZ at the beginning of July.
The routing permitted by QF was YYZ-DFW-NRT-SYD-MEL-SYD-NAN-LAX-YYZ.
(a) How many AA points would this travel have taken? It was 137,000 QF points plus 2500 points assisted booking fee plus 5000 points award change fee.
(b) QF has always required her to route through NRT en route to Oz; any chance AA would have put her on LAX-MEL? (Searching for other possible AA benefits to justify the higher spending.)