Originally Posted by
rwhite
Very interesting. Most of our travel is for pleasure. Don't have status at any single carrier at this point, so maybe we'll credit everything to QF, and hope for Gold. However, I noticed on the QF website, it mentions that travelling 4 QF flights in addition to the points total is required to earn Status? I assume that this will prevent me from achieving status with them. In this case would it be better to credit to AA since the mileage run portion of the trip would probably get AA gold?
I never would have thought FF programs would be so confusing to a novice!
You definitely need 4 QF sectors to reach any status level in the QFF program. In your case you'd only have two (SFO-SYD & SYD-JNB), but you may include in your trip two short domestic services in Australia to reach the quoted 4 QF segments. Sthg like SFO-SYD-MEL (or BNE or ADL)-SYD-JNB-... may be possible and should keep your whole trip under the 16-segment limit that will be enforced from June 1 (IIRC).