Hi,

Thanks everyone. Just 2 questions for clarification:

1. Where do I sign up for the AA Plat challenge?

2. All my flights in BA would have to be booked under the AA number, right?i guess this applies actually for all flights?

Have a look here:

http://www.flyerguide.com/wiki/index.php/Challenge_(AA)

I've received an invitation to do a challenge after contacting AA by e-mail.

for 2) I thought it was always AA metal only but apparently yes, you can book BA flights as long as you are flying under the AA codeshare. Can't back this up though.

I am currently AA PLT and CX Silver.
So here is my travel plan for this year.
I will have 1-2 trips from TPE to US, also 5-7 trips intra-asia from TPE.
My travel is always deep discount Y.
So for trip to US, I have the choice of AA and CX.
For the trip intra-asia, I have the choice of CX.
What program should I credit my miles?
For AA, I can get 100% bonus miles if I fly AA or CX H fare. But I will get nothing for intra-asia fare.
For CX, I can get all the miles, but I will not have 100% bonus miles.
I can try to do both, which means using AA for the trips to US and using CX for intra-asia.
Any recommendations?

Thanks

(1) What is your home airport? MAD
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy? Economy
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? Around 100,000 but split across one world, star, sky team
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? Gold Iberia, Gold Spanair (worth nothing since they just went bust), Silver FlyingBlue
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Lounge access, accumulating and redeeming miles
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? 4* year MAD-USA, 6* year MAD-GRU or CDG-GRU, 4*year MAD-SCL or MAD-EZE, 12* year MAD-LON or MAD-CDG, 12*year MAD-PMI
(7) Preferred Airlines? Iberia has lots of nonstops to Latin America from MAD but is expensive. TAM seems fine for Brazil
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Both


Thanks for any advice!

Can someone advise me which FFP from One World allows the quickest way to partner lounge access?

I have been with AirNZ Star Alliance 15yrs but since 2003/04 when they switched to dollar points not gotten anything other than domestic, I just joined Asiana but not done any mileage. So just wondering about One World.

I have looked at Qantas but seems longer to get status or rewards. I also looked at their earning tables, if you fly Cathay, Qantas only give you 0.50pts per mile and 0.25 with British Airways - with the economy fares. The Cathay Marco Polo club isn't as generous to get to Sapphire (ie., 60,000). The British Airways FFP doesn't allow New Zealanders to enrol.

Edit - normally taking cheap fares. Flying NZ to Asia mainly maybe to Canada occasionally. Once or twice per year that is 14,000 miles per time so 14-28k per year in total. 1) which is quickest to get lounge access? 2) which is faster for rewards ignoring lounge access.


Cheers.

Hi all!

Would appreciate any advice thanks


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


(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
Reply: 50 - 75k


(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ? ( First, Business, Economy etc.)
Reply: J or full fare whY
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: 100% pleasure


(5) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: Kangaroo on the odd occasion, AU domestic, lots of Asia to EU and AUS as well


(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: QF bronze... I know! but if I don't get any advice from you guys will go ahead with my planned out scheme for gold :P


(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: equal 1st lounge access and easy status 2nd good redemption rates 3rd better award access


(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: I have 110,000 points on QFF so If you could help me think up a cheaper scheme for gold happy to stick with them :P Any


PLEASE NOTE I AM NOT ABLE TO JOIN ANY FF PROGRAMMES WHERE YOU MUST BE OVER 18. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS

Hi,

Thanks for all the help with our choices. Unfortunately, MALEV is gone now and I'm not sure what will happen with my oneWorld points (had less than 10% of my points from MALEV in the last 18 months), I'm looking for some new team to join.

1) BUD
2) 50-70k
3) Economy, sometimes Business
4) I can choose, fly for both work and leisure
5) Have 2-3 BUD-US East Coast flights a year (AA or BA), 20-30 Europe, 1-2 BUD-Asia (FinnAir)
6) Have a MALEV Sapphire (exp 2013) for 4-5 yrs now
7) In order of importance: lounge access, priority boarding, excess luggage, redemption
8) Don't like AA, other OW are okay

Looking forward to your suggestions!

Thanks,
Nash

Please advice me. I am a newbie in the forum and a new flyer, I would like to get some advice about the FFP selection in OW

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)
Reply: HKG but could start from any CX destination in far east
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
Reply: 25-50k economy
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ? ( First, Business, Economy etc.)
Reply: economy (would become a J-flyer later)
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: BA, Y+ and usually pleasure
(5) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: HKG-LHR, HKG-YYZ
(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: BAEC
(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: upgrade and lounge access
(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: BA, CX, JL

For members asking for information please help people to assist you, can you provide:
(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)
SFO

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
30-50k, mostly in Y (and mostly on *A)

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

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

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

Last year, NONE of my travel was on OW. It was 2/3 *A and 1/3 Skyteam

(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)
United 2P (don't laugh)

(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.)
Better access, especially in business class

(8) Preferred Airlines
I like BA, haven't flown many other OW carriers other than AA.

I'm a member of both AA and BA, have had both credit cards (no longer have BA's), but seem to prefer BA's program to AA's. I just did a big redemption of OW miles for half a RTW trip.

So my question is: I'd like to drop one of the two programs, but which one?

Hi guys!

I am planning a RTW on oneworld and wanna know which of the OW programs will give me the most miles. I mostly will fly with CX, QF and BA in Y. Moreover, will I get 100% of the flown miles with the AA program?

best,
flo

Moving this to the existing "which FFP" thread. If possible, could you edit your post to include the "stock" questions at the head of this thread?

You should also consult the AA board regarding mileage eligibility when using other airlines.


Gardyloo
Oneworld moderator

Good comment here as post 2 in another thread. My underlining

Your Duna club points are gone, irrespectively where they came from.

Best program will depend a bit on which airline you do the 25 intra eu trips with. I would suggest to look at BAEC first, since your main longhaul is with BA. You should also pay close attention on AB topbonus, when they announce their thresholds for status once in OW.
If your longhaul to asia is in business, then Finnair plus can be of interest as they credit 200% for C. If they are in discount Y, Finnair is not the program for you.

I think you should stay with NZ, even if it is all black! There just isn't any program in OW that will award you status on 14k-28/year.

What you can do, is to very carefully examine the fare classes of your NZ flights, especially your longhaul, to the earning table of A3 Miles&bonus (*A). Some low econ classes earn 70%, and if so your 28k miles will just barely put you over the threshold of *G and you will be back in koru lounge, 'Maramara keke'.

Hello,

I recently moved to Hong Kong and have been flying Cathay/DragonAir in Asia for personal travel. I am pretty sure that I can make the Silver Tier in one year but will not be able to move past that to Gold. I will also probably be able to maintain a Star Alliance platinum level through my transAsia flights. Is it worthwhile to go completely OneWorld and get the 1k equivalent status via AA?

Questions
For members asking for information please help people to assist you, can you provide:
(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)
Reply: HKG and SFO

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
Reply: 1K past 2 years in economy

(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: Yes. I can choose airline and class of service (price sensitive thought). Travel for both. SF - Asia is work and withing Asia is pleasure.

(5) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: SF - HKG (work), HKG to Asia (PVG, NRT) pleasure

(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: 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: Upgrades, lounge access, baggage allowance

(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: Star Alliance partners for transPacific, Cathay for interAsia, UA for domestic US