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For earn/burn AA is a lot better than QF, especially as you start with AA plat status (OW sapphire = QF gold) which helps in your QF earn. Just look at burning charts & co pay fees. But reward flights on QF are hard to find at times

For many pax here in Aust priority boarding means staying in the QF club and boarding last.

The Cats need another dedicated supporter (good you do not support the Swans)

Good points Mwenenzi. I'll credit my QF flights to AA by preference unless I wind up in a non-earning code in which case I'll credit them to QF. (Though my AA platinum ends very soon and I don't know whether they'll soft-land me to gold or not.) Meanwhile, I'll join OZ with a view towards crediting my future *A flights there and hopefully keep *G in my back pocket. Exact details can be figured out once I'm more familiar with my new employer's travel policies.

Thanks for your help! ^

AA will soft land you to gold.

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)

CDG, Charles de Gaulle, Paris.

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)

>50k, economy

(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ? ( First, Business, Economy etc.)

Cheapest economy for holiday trips.
Flexible economy, economy+ tickets often bought or changed at last minute when travelling for work.

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?

Unfortunately economy only.
Intercontinental work trips, short European trips for pleasure.

(5) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)

2-3 times a year from Europe to Asia and within Asia (China, Japan, SEAP, perhaps also Australia in future) for work.

Frequently between Paris and Helsinki, Finland.

Many short holiday trips in Europe.


(6) Do you have FFP status of any kind of OW or other airline at present? What is it? (AA Executive Platinum, QF Gold, UA 1K, LAN Comodoro, etc)

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(7) What is most important to you in a FFP? (upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, extra baggage allowance, good award redemption rates, better award access, free - discounted lounge access, etc.)

1. Good awards
2. Upgrades

(8) Preferred Airlines

I assume that AY and CX will be most frequent.

Berlin but unsure if AB will be safe
 

(1) What is your home airport?
Reply: TXL from Jan (or BER then)
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class?
Reply: 50k-100k, Eco
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Travelling for business I can choose the airline
(5) Which routes do you fly most often
Reply: BER-LHR every second week, BER-EWR every quarter, BER-FRA frequently
(6) Do you have FFP status of any kind of OW or other airline at present? What is it?
Reply: Still Gold at LH; Silver at AB; Platinum at AF
(7) What is most important to you in a FFP? (upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, extra baggage allowance, good award redemption rates, better award access, free - discounted lounge access, etc.)
Reply: upgrades on travel and prio services
(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: Not Air France!

Note: The obvious choice so far has been AB, but with the recent Etihad and AirFrance move I am starting to consider this. I could imagine it would be better to use AB as carrier, but with a BA FF card.

New to this business as I'm going to relocate from DUB to KIN in January for at least two years.

Think my decision is really between AA and BA. I'm expecting to have minimum one (possibly two) round trips KIN-DUB per year. In 2013 I hope to have a round trip to either MEL or SYD, and then a number of shorter hops to the likes of MIA or JFK.

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)
Reply: Will be KIN, Kingston, Jamaica
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
Reply: Expect to be 30k at least in 2013. Similar, maybe sightly lower in 2014.
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ? ( First, Business, Economy etc.)
Reply: Economy - Usually discount, occasional Y.
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Should have free rein most of the time but will be booking economy in almost all cases. Some DUB trips (going on my first journey out there) may be booked by work - they seem to favour DUB-LGW-KIN routing with BA.
(5) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: As above, most long haul trips will be transatlantic, ultimate destination DUB. There will be short trips to US east coast a few times. Other long haul destinations (such as Aus 2013 are possible but won't be regularly repeating any of them)
(6) Do you have FFP status of any kind of OW or other airline at present? What is it? (AA Executive Platinum, QF Gold, UA 1K, LAN Comodoro, etc)
Reply: No status. Very small time non-elite DL and UA member.
(7) What is most important to you in a FFP? (upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, extra baggage allowance, good award redemption rates, better award access, free - discounted lounge access, etc.)
Reply: Upgrades most important (got a taste of DL International Business Class on an overbooked DUB-JFK flight once and want a repeat on long hauls!), chances to redeem miles for upgrades and/or flights next most important. Other perks are nice to haves.
(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: Neutral - haven't flown AA or BA before.

Being located in FRA and flying mainly within (Northern) Europe I have been a loyal *A member for some time. Now I need to fly to XRY which *A doesn't serve very well, so I'm need some advice on which OW programme I should join.

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)
Reply: FRA
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
Reply: 25-50k
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ? ( First, Business, Economy etc.)
Reply: eco
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Within limits. I travel for work (and I don't consider it a pleasure). I can suggest connections, but my employer organises the tickets. Only Y.
(5) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: (Northern) Europe, occasionally TATL
(6) Do you have FFP status of any kind of OW or other airline at present? What is it? (AA Executive Platinum, QF Gold, UA 1K, LAN Comodoro, etc)
Reply: None at OW, but an A3 *G
(7) What is most important to you in a FFP? (upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, extra baggage allowance, good award redemption rates, better award access, free - discounted lounge access, etc.)
Reply: Since I probably shall continue to fly *A and enjoy the perks there, my OW programme should offer good conversion possibilities to other programmes, e. g. HHonors, PriorityClub.
(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: No preference.

Thanks in advance,

swedenabroad

Assuming that your longhaul tickets are all full fair economy or economy plus, and your shorthaul leisure trips are on AY/BA primarily, I would go with AA. My understanding is that they don't enforce a minimum AA metal requirement, and you will earn 100% EQM for all your flights, provided your CX flights are booked in flexible economy or premium economy. AA has a good earn/burn rate and 50K/year will get you AA Platinum = OW Saphire.

BA only awards 25% avios on most AB discount economy, so I would probably stick with AB unless you are flying in flexible econ. Additionally, BA status is awarded by Tier Points, not miles, so make sure that you have enough tier points coming to qualify for Silver (and that you will meet the minimum 4 BA operated or marketed sectors).

I would definitely go with AA. 25k+ gets you AA Gold (OW Ruby). BA qualification is on Tier Points, and you would probably not get the 300 TP required for BA Bronze.

Thanks for this! Other big factor pushing me toward AA is ability to do a status challenge to either get gold immediately on my first flight to KIN, or get platinum if I wait until Summer 2013 and take in one or both of my Australian flights. Should also be able to earn AA miles on a Jamaica bank credit card.

Which OneWorld program to choose?
 

Moving to Melbourne in January to take up an academic job. Unless something goes wrong the move is permanent.

Plans for 2013 include YVR-SAN return, YVR-MEL one way, MEL-YYC return, MEL-YYZ return, MEL-YUL return, and probably MEL==>US==>Europe==>TLV==>PEK==>MEL. Finally, perhaps 8 domestic flights in Australia (mostly short), All flights in economy, most or all in discounted economy. I can choose whichever airlines I want, but am limited to economy.

Priorities: lounge access, upgrades to business, being able to get exit seats when flying economy, priority in going through security

Would very much appreciate advice. Should I go for AA or QFF? Any point/chance to try and obtain status in *A? Any particular credit card that is worth getting after I move to Australia?

With TAM getting out of *A soon, i would like to know from the experts what would be my best bet for OW in south america? I am not much familiar with OW FFPrograms but I hear that LANPass is really bad. My home airport is POA but I use SaoPaulo-GRU very often. I fly 50k per year usually with *A carriers, normally economy.
Also, would any OW airline match my *G status?

Thanks a lot.

Hi there,
I'm wondering about whether to credit my upcoming CathayPac business NZ>LHR return miles to asia miles or QF ffp. I'm based in NZ, have NZ*G but looking at leaving *A and moving to OW.
I travel to asia 1-2x per year, either business or economy and up-grade to business and to europe once a year in business. Half paid for by work, rest by me.
I like the business traveller eperience, lounges, priority check-in.
I can usually choose my airline.
Any thoughts wouldbe greatly appreciated.
Thx

(1) What is your home airport?
Reply: HKG
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class?
Reply: <25k on economy
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Reply: Economy
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Can sit on any OW airlines. Pleasure (+ aircraft type :p)
(5) Which routes do you fly most often?
Reply: Asia
(6) Do you have FFP status of any kind of OW or other airline at present? What is it?
Reply: No, planning to have one.
(7) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Reply: Redemption rates and lounge access
(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: Every OW carrier except CX

Thanks a lot :)