Do the same analysis with AA and MH and even Alaska.
What benefit's do you expect / hope to get from QF gold ?
JQ/3k need to be the higher priced flights for QF points. But some are not QF earning: be careful
With QF you need 4 QF flights to get status. The "~" in your QF FFP web site. As QF has close to abandoned SIN this is hard

Based in SIN, what are my options if I decide to join OW?
 

Subj. Flight patterns - long distance flights only: SIN-SFO, SIN-ZRH, SIN-FRA, SIN-GRU - totally about 8 round trip flights a year, all company travel. I've already had 75K this year but my next flight will be coming no early than September.

Currently I have PP status with UA but do not know if it worth to stick with them. All flight is in Y, but personally for me UA E+ is value differentiator. I won't make change unless airliner has the similar product and this is the reason why I don't use SQ.

Any recommendations - welcome.

I'm going to move this to the existing sticky thread regarding how to choose a Oneworld FFP.

Gardyloo
Oneworld moderator

LANPass vs AAdvantage
 

Hi, I'm new to this forum but from everything I've been reading is a lot of help!
I'm about to join a OneWorld program but can't decide which one. I am based on MEX (Mexico City) and travel roughly 6-7 times a year to LIM (Lima) and SCL (Santiago), and randomly to UIO (Quito) all of them are business related trips, so my company pays the fare but let me keep the miles.

I always travel in LAN so I'd like to earn status with them, but I'd also like to redeem the miles with tickets to the US. It's obviously more "expensive" to redeem with LAN than AA.

My main doubt is if I can accrue my miles with AA and earn status in LAN, even if none of my flights are with AA. LAN has a restriction of 4 segments with them at least to earn status, but I couldn't find anything related in the AAdvantage website.

Thanks a lot

Welcome to FT!

I'm going to move this to the existing "which Oneworld FFP?" thread.

Gardyloo
Oneworld moderator

Cathay, Qantas or Asia Miles Frequent Flyer programs
 

Hi,

I will soon be frequently flying between Sydney and Hong Kong.

Can someone please recommend which frequent flyer program is best to join out of Cathay, Qantas and Asia Miles?

I plan to collect points to redeem flights.
Also, anyone have suggestions on the best credit card (issued out of Hong Kong) to earn miles.

All suggestions/comments would be much appreciated.

thanks

Will u fly QF or CX? In hk there r many credit cards that can credit to Asia miles but not QFfp

Cdubbyou Welcome to the forum

What class of travel [economy, business or first] ?
Cathay is Asia Mile's
Look here http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/onewo...help-here.html
Many linked threads in post 2
Do not over look AA

Cathay, Qantas or Asia Miles Frequent Flyer programs
 

Asia miles is Cathy's program, Marco Polo is status only, you can't redeem miles from Marco Polo... It is extremely poor earning if you buy cheap economy tickets and crediting to the other airline... And if you are based in Sydney, many credit card goes to QF, in HK, many credit card credits to CX.... That's the two main factors I guess....

Welcome to FT and the friendly QF forum, Cdubbyou!

[mod hat] I will move this to the oneworld forum for better coverage [/mod hat]

thank you.

Thank you all for replying, and thanks for clarifying that Asia Miles is actually the same as Cathay's Asia Miles *embarrassed :p

@Mwenenzi: That looks like a really good link, Will do some night time reading. Most of the time, it will be Economy/Premium.

@correctioncx: QF and CX often have flights with similar prices. I will fly depending on which airline gives best bang for buck.

@123dd: I am relocating and will be based out of HK. WIll probably take up your suggestion and go with CX.

I am looking at the best value credit card to score asia miles. Any suggestions?

Agreed, unless most of your flights will be on CX in Economy in Y, B or H class (the most expensive ones). Any other CX Economy fare class is ineligible for crediting to AA.

Maybe start here - http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/catha...amiles-hk.html

I'm going to merge this thread with the existing "which FFP?" thread.

Gardyloo
Oneworld moderator

You are welcome.. Hope these information helps..

Just came to mind that LAN is another option for you, if you are switching between CX and QF all the time.. LAN gives 100% to all QF CX miles earning fares, plus LAN uses kms, not miles, so 60% more... And their short haul redemption is really good too...