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I am currently an SQ PPS Member, a Lufthansa Senator, and a Qantas Platinum member. I am intending on switching my travel to CX. I was wondering if it was possible to earn status through Marco Polo Club but earn miles into another oneworld account such as AA. This would be similar to SQ allowing one to earn PPS sectors with SQ but earn miles into a more generous star partners mileage program.

In addition what are my chances of earning diamond status? I fly SYD-HKG-JFK in F round trip twice annually as well as one HKG-DXB in J roundtrip and a HKG-PVG in F round trip. What bonus does one receive for F cabin travel?

Also I have one concern in that I have heard that the A330s will be converted to two cabins, with no 744 service to Australia does this mean that it will be a two cabin market? Also will the A340 non stop to JFK become two classes or will it be replaced by a three class 77W?

Thanks in advance for your help.

kaka

For the first question: No. MPC status and AM miles comes together... Unless you have a European address then you could earn BA miles with MPC status.

sxc

You will need to fly at least 210,000 miles within a max of 3 years in order to reach diamond, and then maintain 120,000 miles annually. You get 150% miles for F.

B-HQC

First of all you would not have enough Club Miles so qualify for Diamond anyway, so there is no point of using MPO since you already have OW Emerald. CX treats Emeralds well. Ironically, given the importance of CX's premium passengers, MPO does not reward them equitably (mileage wise) at all. Personally, this has been a major sour point with CX, and I switched to AAdv last year after many years of DM. Still, if you are content with all of this (and the rather high qualifying Club Miles) DM remains., by far, the most valuable OW Emerald tier due to the magnitude of "unpublished" benefits.

More importantly however, given your travel pattern, I would not recommend CX. Have you looked at the schedules? Taking CX SYD-HKG-JFK is a 30+ hour journey involving a almost five hour layover in HKG, I believe the QF one stop is around 20 hours, a full 10 hours less journey time. I do not know any premium traveler that would be content with such a major waste of time regardless of the quality difference between the two products, which quite frankly are not that great in F.

B-HQC

BAEC not surprisingly have a worse redemption rate compared to Asiamiles.

Guy Betsy

Hang on !

Why would you be asking such a question if you are already CX Diamond , as in your profile.

Unless you're not who you really are? You don't need to switch to MPC if you're only flying few CX flights - you can of course just credit towards your own OW FFPs.

christep

GB, I believe this is our old "friend" who has been trolling here many times under many different guises...