Originally Posted by
seanthepilot
Ticketed as SYD-LHR, and looks like QF may be the one for me. Have an old QF card that I could dust off, actually.
With the AA idea, the platinum challenge just occured to me. Understand that middle tier with AA gets no domestic lounge access, but are there more drawbacks to the AA program that I'm missing?
Not just middle tier, even an EXP does not have lounge access when travel is solely within North America and the Carribbeans.
AAdvantage has very good earn/burn ratio, but it cannot be used for non-AA upgrades.