If you fly QR a lot, then their own program may make sense because you’d get lounge access even on cheap business class tickets. Their lowest fares no longer contain lounge access or seat reservations.

I'm only looking for US lounge access, when I'm flying AA in Y, in the US or Caribbean. QR lounges I've enjoyed through and through.

Hi, I would appreciate your insights on which FF I should choose going forward ... TIA

I'm currently BAEC Silver. But, I will lose this soon as I havent been travelling during pandemic and travel post-pandemic has been limited.

(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Reply: upgrades (though I hardly get them), seat selection, priority boarding and extra baggage would be nice, I rarely redeem award tickets (usually redeem miles to upgrade to business seats), lounge access would be good (but I could give up since I have Amex lounge access too)

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
Reply: <25000 miles in economy and <25 flights

(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Reply: cheapest, but have also done the QR business tickets in the past for quick Tier Points

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: yes can choose airlines but usually in economy class. Current travel is only pleasure.

(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
Reply: I used to live in UK and made frequent trips to US and Asia. But I have now relocated to Asia and planning to make frequent trips to New Zealand and some US (no more UK/Europe trips).

(6) What is your home airport?
Reply: SIN

(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
Reply: AA (no status, miles used to upgrade AA segments), BAEC Silver (most miles are banked here), Qantas (no status, just started pre-pandemic)

(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Used to fly BA (unlikely in future), AA, QR (only for tier point runs), CX and QF

Which OneWorld program? AA or Iberia
 

tl;dr - On the fence between collecting on AA vs IberaPlus this year and next for my OneWorld program, and could use help deciding. Open to other OneWorld programs if better also.

(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Upgrades on travel, good "bang for buck" earning mileage on other OneWorld airlines

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
(<25000, 25000-50000, >50000 miles - <25, 25-50, >50 flights?)
Reply: 40000ish (might be 50-100k next year) - about 30 "segments" per year

(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?

(First, Business, Premium economy, Economy, cheapest)
Reply: Business promo

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Yes I can chose, travel mostly for work, but 1-2 pleasure trips per year also.

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

Reply: S America to Europe, S America to USA

(6) What is your home airport?
(SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)
Reply: MEC / UIO / GYE

(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
(AA Executive Platinum, QF Gold, UA 1K, LAN Comodoro, etc)
Reply: AA Gold, Copa Connect Gold

(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Copa, AA, Iberia

(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Reply: No mileage expiration and good award redemption rate for 2 people from NYC-Asia
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
(<25000, 25000-50000, >50000 miles - <25, 25-50, >50 flights?)
Reply: NYC to Asia once a year
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Reply: Business
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Yes. For pleasure.
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
Reply: NYC to Asia once a year
(6) What is your home airport?
Reply: JFK/LGA/EWR
(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
Reply: No status or miles with OW.
(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Reply: No preference.

Flying JFK-BOS-NRT-CGK on AA and JAL in I class later this year. I have 175k Amex MR points banked. Is Alaska Airlines the best FFP for me based on my answers?

Be aware that you would not be allowed to fly JFK-BOS-NRT-CGK on a single AS award, because AS awards do not permit the use of more than one partner carrier -- with or without AS -- on a single award. AA awards have no such restriction.

Although AA miles do expire after 24 months with no activity (earning or redeeming), it is very easy to earn AA miles without flying. Any such earnings would automatically extend the expiration date of all AA miles by an additional 24 months.

I purchased roundtrip tickets for JFK-BOS-NRT-CGK on AA+JAL through Amex IAP. I'm just wondering where should I credit the miles if I want to use them in the future for travel from NYC to Asia in business class.

Since you cannot be certain that available award routings in the future would not require a combination of AA and JL flights, it would seem safer to credit to AA, since AS awards would not permit you to combine both of those carriers on a single award.

(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Future upgrades, leisure personal travels
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
(<25000, 25000-50000, >50000 miles - <25, 25-50, >50 flights?)
Anticipate BOS to Philippines once every 2 months on business trip, so about 100k miles a year if including personal miles
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Reply: Extra led room (for now)
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: No. For work/pleasure.
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
Reply: BOS to MNL (Manila) every 2 months, try to stick to a few airlines like JAL, Emirates, Cathy
(6) What is your home airport?
Reply: BOS
(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
Reply: Emirates 14k, Jetblue 12k, United 50k, just applied JMB program
(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Reply: No preference, JL, CX, Emirates

just getting into the Chase Ultimate Reward program with CSR card, also just appied Chase United airline card

It would be helpful to know what kind of leisure personal travel you'd want to redeem your miles for. Domestic? International? Economy Class or higher-level cabin?

Goal is to redeem for International on F/J.

As you live in USA far better to credit the ff miles to a USA based airline ffp. Far more opportunity to acquire non flying freq flyer miles.
AS & AA are Oneworld, as is CX, JL & QR. So can credit CX & JL flights (if eligible) to AS or AA ffp. Or JL flights to EK.
Jetblue & AA are ff partners--->https://www.wheretocredit.com/jetblue-airways
EK are ff partners with Jetblue & JL-->https://www.wheretocredit.com/emirates

Many acounts with small ff balances are of little value
Be wary of expiry-->https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mile...-t-expire.html

And https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/info...help-here.html

JAL has this FlyON promotion going on right now.
Do I use JMB to collect the double points first, or using other FFP can also able to collect the double promotion points?
sorry lots of newbie questions here. Thanks all for the help

AAdvantage awards have no surcharges on partner carriers, except for travel on BA/IB. (Surcharges for travel on BA are high; those for travel on IB are modest.)

If your business travel to/from the Philippines is in Business Class, you could quickly attain oneworld elite status by flying CX, JL, and/or QR, and crediting to the Iberia Plus program. Iberia Plus Avios can be transferred to both BA and QR if/when it is advantageous to do so.

But if your international leisure travel is likely to be to Asia, you would probably be better off crediting to AA, and redeeming for award travel -- with no surcharges -- on CX/JL.

One trip is a poor basis to select a ffp.
Freq flyer miles are not equal to earn or burn, even when many credit cards transfer as the same rate.
The cost of awards (miles-points & cash surcharges if any) vary between ffp's.
A guide (not all ffp)-->https://www.awardhacker.com/