Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
It should not make any difference who tickets the flight. QF points are all by your ff number & the flight number. Keep the $$ instead of giving it to QF.
Glad so see there was a positive result ^ It will help others
You are correct, except:
The slight downside of the AA itinerary was that they could only confirm me on LA 800 on the trans-pacific sector (they had no availability for a QF 321 code-share seat on the same flight), and they also had no availability on the QF direct service NRT-MEL, so had to book me on CX via HKG (and WL me for the QF direct service). While the CX flight would add some SCs and additional points over the (baseline points for the) QF direct service, it also adds about 7 hrs to the journey (with a quick connect time in HKG but transit via ADL from HKG-MEL).
Also, if I buy via QF I will gain an additional 10 or 11k in QF FF bonus points for purchasing direct from them on my ANZ QF FF credit card.
So, all up a difference of about 20k FF points, as I figure it, but I am happy to be corrected.
tb