(1) What is your home airport?
Reply: SFO
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class?
Reply: more than 175K (almost all in J)
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ?
Reply: Business, J
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: for work, planing to choose Cathay Pacific for 2013 trips.
(5) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: SFO to China
(6) Do you have FFP status of any kind of OW or other airline at present? What is it?
Reply: UA 1K
(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: Award travel (Asia, Europe and S America)
(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: Currently *A (United) would like to try out Cathay Pacific

Hi

i don't know if this is the right place to post my question, so please accept my apologizes in advance if not

well, my sister never selected any FFP because she never cared

therefore she could have earned a lot of miles but never did

now that she is living in Canada and will be visiting us in Europe and also travelling across North America
i was wondering which FFP i would advise her to register to

she will soon fly from Canada to Vietnam with Cathay Pacific

should she select Asia Miles or another OW program and get her miles on this program from her Cathay flights ?

hesitating between Cathay, AA and British Airways

thanks

If award travel is most important and you are US bsaed then most probably AA is the best program for you. Also you are already booking J so the need for upgrades is less pressing compared to flying Y.
The only thing I would add is that IMHO in is advantages to have status with the airline you actually fly. So should you aim for status and you almost always fly CX, I would join their program even so earn/burn rate and fees might be worse than AA.

If most of her travel is TATL then I would not join the CX program. In fact, if she is mainly flying Y and not that often anyway, AA will (again) be the best program for her.

The first reply to naar keer
With 175k miles in J, I would seriously quality as EXP under AA and then Gold with Cathay MPC. CX does a quite reasonable job of tracking your flying even under other programs and have treated me well over the last 6-7 years as AA EXP/PLT. And remember that upgrades with MPC may be better bargains than awards under AA. And both airlines handle IRROPs better than others.

Happy wandering

Fred

is AA good for me if i base at HK?

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

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

(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ? ( First, Business, Economy etc.)
Reply: Economy most times, Business occasionally.

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: I can choose airline and class or service. Travel for both work/pleasure.

(5) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: 2 return trips from DEL - ORD in a year and some travel to Europe/Asia.

(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: Delta Silver Medallion, Kingfisher Gold, British Airways Blue. These are all mine. My wife has Bronze on BA which will soon be Silver.

(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 is most important.

(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: KLM/BA to USA and no specific ones in Asia

We are mostly looking for getting upgrades through miles and hence what would be the best program that allows us to do that?

That's actually a tough call because only H class or higher fares on CX credit to AA.
If you flew 30K miles/year CX would likely be a better choice. CX Sliver gets lounge access in HKG (I believe).

You may get better joy with MH or UL when they join OneWorld. Also read through the stickies on the JMB program.

Happy wandering

Fred

I got the PM from someone suggesting I might like to help out here. Popped in to have a nose around.

If anyone can put in 4 LAN segments per year then by all means send me a PM and I will chip in with LANPASS comparisons

Happy flying and greetings from South America

First of all, I appreciate everyone's willingness to help. It's a big reason I finally registered after years of merely lurking.

I'm currently Gold on A3/:-:A. And since it doesn't take much to maintain my A3 Gold, I wanted to find another program to dump my new miles into. I figured it would be smart to see if there was anything feasible for me with One World.

(1) What is your home airport?

In a few weeks it will officially be ICN for a while. When I'm stateside, it's PDX.

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class?

I'd say I average just over 25k in Economy per year.

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

Nearly always Economy.

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

I'm almost always flying for personal vacations. And the few times it's specifically for work... I buy my ticket, but it has to be Economy.

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

I'll probably only make 1 round trip back to North America per year and the rest of my flights will mostly be around E/SE Asia.

(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)

Just :-:A: A3 Gold.

(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. extra baggage allowance
2. low qualifications for maintaining status.
3. not having to worry about my miles expiring.

(8) Preferred Airlines

I really haven't experienced too many that have won me over (yet). In the states, I've probably had better experiences with Alaska Airlines more than most other ones.

I'd just like to have a OW option to add to my :-:A Gold status... something that would be useful in Asia and the US.

Thanks in advance for your help! :)

Offhand, I'd probably investigate a household account with BA. Depending on the specifics of your longhaul travel, you (personally) might be able to attain status with BA on your own, playing the tier point game. But having a household account means you can pool your Avios with your wife or other family members, which might provide enough points to make MFU upgrades (one of the best aspects of the BA scheme) more practical. That would address your priority for "what's important" at no loss of your own ability to achieve status based on your personal tier point accumulation. (Remember tier points are still personal, even with a household BAEC account.)

http://www.britishairways.com/travel...t/public/en_gb
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...ing-avios.html

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)
Reply: LAX
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
Reply: <25K Coach
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ? ( First, Business, Economy etc.)
Reply: Economy
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Work / pleasure. Always can choose.
(5) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: US Domestic, going to be doing a lot of Asia travel 1st quarter 2013
(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. Have 60,000 BA avios, 75,000 Amex points, and 25,000 ultimate rewards points, but No Tier Points.
(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: Lounge access
(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: None

Thanks so much for any help!

(1) What is your home airport? FRA

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy? Economy

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? Varies a lot, but between 60-110k

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? AA EXP

(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Miles. Upgrades and Priority are also welcome. Lounges is not a big deal for now since I've a Amex Plat. Lifetime status is always a plus.

(6) Which routes do you fly most often? I will be flying 1...2 times per year to South America, plus some travels to North America and Asia, and a few intra-Europe flights.

(7) Preferred Airlines? I like AA nowadays, but I'm moving to FRA and it's *A land, so I'm considering switching.

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Both


Currently I live in the US and like to fly AA in which I have EXP status (already achieved for next year), but I will be moving to Frankfurt and it's Star Alliance territory. What are my best options in your opinion? Keep flying mainly with OneWorld and try to get an easy Star Alliance Gold in Turkish or Aegean for the times that I need? Completely switch to *A?

Thanks!

(1) What is your home airport?
SYD

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

(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ? ( First, Business, Economy etc.)
Y/B or J

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Travel for work, QF domestically, but lots of choice int'l

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

(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)
CX Gold; AC *SE (any hope of status matching anywhere to get Emerald?)

(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.)
Good award redemption rates, upgrades

(8) Preferred Airlines
Challenge is that I'm in QF for less than 2 years, have 350k in BA, and 15k in AA (I'll likely be going back to US/Canada).

YYCOllie
Welcome to Australia

Guess "Challenge is that I'm in QF for less than 2 years" should be "Challenge is that I'm in Australia for less than 2 years"

So you have CX Gold (and some miles?), many BA miles & few AA miles

Being in 3 OW programs now, seems no use joining a 4th, if these miles will be orphaned in 2 years, unless you will use them now. BA do not accept Aussie members, so best not to change your address.

QF upgrade's with QF points can be problematic. International very hard tending to near impossible is you have no QF status and/or busy route. Domestic a little less so, especially if can get ODU in the QF club. AASA/JASA can be good value at times using your QF points and earning points/SC on the same flight.

If you are not a QF member and do want to join can do free on www.everydayrewards.com.au (Woolworth)

Will have miles earning potential from an Aussie credit card ?

For good redemption rates run away fast from QF. AA has better burn / earn

Many QF flights will credit to AA or BA or maybe CX. But check the fare bucket. Some low QF fares get zilch with AA. But I assume you need some activity with CX/AA/BA in these every 18 months(?) to keep these accounts alive.

If it was me would not be looking at QF but building up miles - status with BA or AA