(cross-posted from flyertalk)
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[TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #FFFFFF"]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: MEL (Melbourne, Australia)
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
Reply: 25k-40k
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ? ( First, Business, Economy etc.)
Reply: Cheapest economy
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Work; some pleasure (both cheapest economy)
(5) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: Australia-US, some domestic Australia
(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: No status
(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:
(1) good award redemption rates
(2) lounge access
(realize that upgrades are unlikely for me)
(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: Avoid United internationally, like the service on QF
On advice I got from you good (flyertalk) folks before moving to Oz, I started focusing on AA. Then I realized that the bargain-basement economy tickets our work travel agent is buying us aren't getting me any ffp at all (!) on AA. I flew roundtrip DEN-LAX-MEL on AA/QF in October 2011 and only got ffp for the domestic US DEN-LAX legs, nothing for the real mileage part of the trip.
I have the following travel upcoming:
(trip 1)
MEL-LAX-JFK -- QF Q class
JFK-BOS -- DL K class
BOS-JFK -- AA G class
JFK-LAX-MEL -- QF Q class
(trip 2)
MEL-Hong Kong-Pusan, S Korea -- CX L class
Pusan-Cheju S Korea -- Korean Air Y class
Cheju-Seoul S Korea -- Korean Air Y class
Seoul-Tokyo -- JL L class
Tokyo-San Fran-LAX-DEN -- AA L class
DEN-LAX-MEL -- QF L class
I'm thinking I need to start accumulating with QF to get *any* benefit from those long-haul cheapo-class QF flights. But on the other hand my primary purpose is to consolidate enough miles to get award tickets (preferably to go to Europe). I do have a BA account with 21k Avios miles but I do know from experience that those miles are difficult and expensive to use, and I understand the same is true for QF. I could also split and try to put the AA flights on AA and QF on QF but I'm not sure I can do that on a single itinerary, and that just spreads my points out thinly.
I am also in the market for an Australian credit card, so thought about getting a QF-associated one if I need to go that route. Not sure how much that matters. That will be my next post ...
Thanks for any thoughts.[/TD]
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[TD="class: alt1, bgcolor: #FFFFFF"]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: MEL (Melbourne, Australia)
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
Reply: 25k-40k
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ? ( First, Business, Economy etc.)
Reply: Cheapest economy
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Work; some pleasure (both cheapest economy)
(5) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: Australia-US, some domestic Australia
(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: No status
(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:
(1) good award redemption rates
(2) lounge access
(realize that upgrades are unlikely for me)
(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: Avoid United internationally, like the service on QF
On advice I got from you good (flyertalk) folks before moving to Oz, I started focusing on AA. Then I realized that the bargain-basement economy tickets our work travel agent is buying us aren't getting me any ffp at all (!) on AA. I flew roundtrip DEN-LAX-MEL on AA/QF in October 2011 and only got ffp for the domestic US DEN-LAX legs, nothing for the real mileage part of the trip.
I have the following travel upcoming:
(trip 1)
MEL-LAX-JFK -- QF Q class
JFK-BOS -- DL K class
BOS-JFK -- AA G class
JFK-LAX-MEL -- QF Q class
(trip 2)
MEL-Hong Kong-Pusan, S Korea -- CX L class
Pusan-Cheju S Korea -- Korean Air Y class
Cheju-Seoul S Korea -- Korean Air Y class
Seoul-Tokyo -- JL L class
Tokyo-San Fran-LAX-DEN -- AA L class
DEN-LAX-MEL -- QF L class
I'm thinking I need to start accumulating with QF to get *any* benefit from those long-haul cheapo-class QF flights. But on the other hand my primary purpose is to consolidate enough miles to get award tickets (preferably to go to Europe). I do have a BA account with 21k Avios miles but I do know from experience that those miles are difficult and expensive to use, and I understand the same is true for QF. I could also split and try to put the AA flights on AA and QF on QF but I'm not sure I can do that on a single itinerary, and that just spreads my points out thinly.
I am also in the market for an Australian credit card, so thought about getting a QF-associated one if I need to go that route. Not sure how much that matters. That will be my next post ...
Thanks for any thoughts.[/TD]
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