Upcoming Travel - credit to QF, BA or AA?

[newformula]

OK, I've spent the last few months reading up on the ins and outs of the various FFP's and thought I had it all figured out... my upcoming travel is outlined in google docs here You can see where I'll hit PS and SG, if I'm lucky.

As you can see I currently have 150 SC's in QFF - and no status. I'm due to fly LHR-SYD in 2 days. You can't see this in the spreadsheet, but I have 40K QFF pts, 17k BA pts (left over from before I moved to Australia) and 0 AA pts. No status in any program. I earn many of my FF pts through credit card spend in AU. Finally - the UK/GVA trip on JAL has about a 50% chance of going ahead.

My travel is mostly self-funded - I may take the odd trip for work, but nothing guaranteed. I visit my family in the UK once every 18 months or so. I'll never to be able to self-fund travel in J in the near future, so look to get there by upgrading bookings with points or redeeming for FF seats.

My question... should I be crediting all the upcoming flights to QF, BA, or AA?


I've come to realise that the answer to that question seems to be found amongst a mixture of the FFP facts and my preferences. I would prefer to:

Get some kind of status for lounge access, preferential seating etc - but of course I understand this can be purchased through QP membership
Use points to redeem for upgraded travel on paid tickets, or outright international J / Premium Y rewards from AU - bearing in mind that many of my points (probably around 5-7k/mth on average) come from CC spend

Let me know your opinion based on the above - and thanks as always. I will be putting up a trip report soon from my recent QF/BA trip in J as a small token of thanks for all the info gleaned from this forum.

 

[markis10]

When do your SC's expire/rollover, that may affect how you wil hit SG.

 

[newformula]

When do your SC's expire/rollover, that may affect how you wil hit SG.

August 31. That UK/GVA trip would be completed in July.

 

[newformula]

I'm guessing the lack of replies is due to the fact that there's no easy answer... which is what I concluded. I'm flying in 24 hours LHR-SYD so will leave all crediting to QF for now as at least that's a known quantity. Thanks for thinking about it anyway.

 

[Dave Noble]

I'm guessing the lack of replies is due to the fact that there's no easy answer... which is what I concluded. I'm flying in 24 hours LHR-SYD so will leave all crediting to QF for now as at least that's a known quantity. Thanks for thinking about it anyway.

The issue I see is that some of the classes booked are ineligable to AA. If you had not yet already paid for the flights , I would be recommending AA since AU-US on its own could be used to get Platinum status and get a much better spending miles value

Dave

 

[Mwenenzi]

.. I would prefer to:
Get some kind of status for lounge access, preferential seating etc - but of course I understand this can be purchased through QP membership.
Use points to redeem for upgraded travel on paid tickets, or outright international J / Premium Y rewards from AU - bearing in mind that many of my points (probably around 5-7k/mth on average) come from CC spend

Upgrades on QF are only available on QF flights on QF aircraft with QF points. However point upgrades on QF are very hard to get.

However AA rewards requiresless points-miles than QF.