I've got one of those convoluted looking-for-opinions questions 
Trying to get my head around options and best choices for MEL > western Japan and/or Taiwan > Europe > MEL.
As I have limited miles earning opportunities and rarely spare cash for premium travel, I like the experience to feel pampered/comfortable and having great food. I've previously flown C on QR (great food), EY (poor staff, average food), TG (poor food), MH (patchy staff, awful food). One problem for me is that I can't eat seafood and most premium cabin menus are blinged up with seafood canapés, lobster, caviar, etc, so I have at times felt a bit neglected cos the staff often lack the initiative to provide anything flexible (a spontaneously provided bowl of warm nuts made my day on TG once).
I have 143k QF points. Very limited available options for my travel period are
QF/CX C MEL-KIX (98k) or -Taiwan (72k),
CX C HKG-Europe (92k), EK C HKG-Europe (84k),
and there's one day of availability in EK F from KIX to CDG which requires 144k points (minor top-up, but I don't know the tax/surcharges).
I also have 72k SQ points with about another 10k due in about a fortnight. It looks like I can get MEL-Japan in C for 66k (including 15% online booking discount), but there are no other suitable flights available other than one day SIN-MEL.
For Europe-MEL there's nothing desirable and available, except I could splash out as a last minute option on some discounted LifeMiles (offer expires 3pm AEST 1/6) to achieve Europe-MEL C for about A$2000, but it'll require the screenshot method to get booked on TG or TK+TG, and availability is thin. (I don't regard CA or AI as good enough experiences, based on what I've read.) Or I just slum it in an overpriced o/w Y revenue ticket. :shock:
Is Emirates F something that would probably deliver, compared to just doing C instead on EK or CX? Should I just save my points for something planned further in advance? Ideas welcome (I know tastes vary widely
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Trying to get my head around options and best choices for MEL > western Japan and/or Taiwan > Europe > MEL. As I have limited miles earning opportunities and rarely spare cash for premium travel, I like the experience to feel pampered/comfortable and having great food. I've previously flown C on QR (great food), EY (poor staff, average food), TG (poor food), MH (patchy staff, awful food). One problem for me is that I can't eat seafood and most premium cabin menus are blinged up with seafood canapés, lobster, caviar, etc, so I have at times felt a bit neglected cos the staff often lack the initiative to provide anything flexible (a spontaneously provided bowl of warm nuts made my day on TG once).
I have 143k QF points. Very limited available options for my travel period are
QF/CX C MEL-KIX (98k) or -Taiwan (72k),
CX C HKG-Europe (92k), EK C HKG-Europe (84k),
and there's one day of availability in EK F from KIX to CDG which requires 144k points (minor top-up, but I don't know the tax/surcharges).
I also have 72k SQ points with about another 10k due in about a fortnight. It looks like I can get MEL-Japan in C for 66k (including 15% online booking discount), but there are no other suitable flights available other than one day SIN-MEL.
For Europe-MEL there's nothing desirable and available, except I could splash out as a last minute option on some discounted LifeMiles (offer expires 3pm AEST 1/6) to achieve Europe-MEL C for about A$2000, but it'll require the screenshot method to get booked on TG or TK+TG, and availability is thin. (I don't regard CA or AI as good enough experiences, based on what I've read.) Or I just slum it in an overpriced o/w Y revenue ticket. :shock:
Is Emirates F something that would probably deliver, compared to just doing C instead on EK or CX? Should I just save my points for something planned further in advance? Ideas welcome (I know tastes vary widely
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