<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by nologic:
"Given that you earn miles 2.5 - 3 times faster with AA than QF and AA award levels being 10% - 50% lower than QFs my view is that you are allways better off with AA."
Is QF considering doing anything about improving upon this imbalance?</font>
Maybe I missing something, but from the tables I am looking at it appears as though you earn less through AAdvantage than QFF when traveling on QF – see the following (AA doesn’t earn points for all fare classes and at 70% on most other Y fares):
https://www.aa.com/apps/AAdvantage/V...artnerType=Air
Then click on Qantas
While QF earns at 100% in all fare classes + 1000 point minimum earn:
http://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/...ingPoints#what
Am I missing something?
Does the platinum challenge help you in your second year of membership? Or do you need to fly the full qualifying miles?
As for the rewards QF is cheaper for some AA flights while AA is cheaper for some QF flights… but for most awards the differences appears small.
Plus I earn 4 QFF points for every USD I spend outside Australia on my QTVC card (although this is dropping as the AUD rises).
[This message has been edited by bruceb (edited 05-20-2002).]