Re: Are you ‘better’ at collecting FF points/managing your account when you have a go
I don't go out of my way to accumulate points or make any advance plans but we (retired couple) travel and spend enough that we get a reasonable number of points and can usually find seats when we want. My wife doesn't like to fly more than about 9 hours without at least a night's stopover. Where we fly during the day, we're happy with economy so our main points spend is on business for nighttime sectors. That means that we often have separate tickets for different sectors, which makes it easy to use points on only those sectors. As regular readers may have seen, I try to avoid Qantas and my main schemes have been SQ and VA. I refused to link my credit cards to only Qantas so build up very little with QF. In the last few years, SQ fees etc (especially fuel surcharges) have made it expensive to use them so we use SQ points on other airlines (NZ & SA recently). We've now joined EK FF to give access to One World.
I don't go out of my way to accumulate points or make any advance plans but we (retired couple) travel and spend enough that we get a reasonable number of points and can usually find seats when we want. My wife doesn't like to fly more than about 9 hours without at least a night's stopover. Where we fly during the day, we're happy with economy so our main points spend is on business for nighttime sectors. That means that we often have separate tickets for different sectors, which makes it easy to use points on only those sectors. As regular readers may have seen, I try to avoid Qantas and my main schemes have been SQ and VA. I refused to link my credit cards to only Qantas so build up very little with QF. In the last few years, SQ fees etc (especially fuel surcharges) have made it expensive to use them so we use SQ points on other airlines (NZ & SA recently). We've now joined EK FF to give access to One World.
