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Over the two decades or so that I've been on frequent flyer forums, the topic of lifetime status regularly pops up. Aside from lifetime Platinum, Qantas's lifetime status offering has never changed. This is despite the airline growing, shrinking, changing routes, making loads of changes to the...

Elite status drives the endowment effect in our minds. It's a proven behavioural economical psychology effect. Here's a new interesting article how status (matches) drive at least 1 person insane (in a good way) Done Right, Airline Elite Status Makes People Insane Both Qantas and Virgin's...

Malaysia Airlines is not obligated to have a fully-functional search feature for all oneworld airlines because of their small size. As such, you'll find that searching for award flights using their website on partners doesn't show much and you need to call. To find availability on oneworld...

Here I am advocating for swinging points to Enrich for better availability... Yesterday I was searching for any award space to get into SYD next week and found that Malaysia Airlines is giving more award inventory to Qantas than their own Enrich members. Same day. Same flight.

Another option is to move a few Amex points into Enrich and book using those miles. Unlimited availability in all fare classes, whereas QF will only have access to X/U. ASEAN flights using Enrich miles can be worth it even with dynamic redemption as the rate is not static like other airlines.

It was under $4000 a few months back

It's all ex-TAP folks running Etihad now. Don't expect things to get better....

Why are all EK's latest partners in Star Alliance? Weird huh!

How long til MH and CX move to Avios? Qatar Government owns 9.99% of Cathay Pacific (increased since 2017) https://www.qatarairways.com/en/press-releases/2017/nov/qatar-airways-announces-its-acquisition-of-9-61--of-cathay-pacif.html Malaysia Airlines and Qatar announce highly strategic...

The value in VA is Velocity. Velocity -> move to -> Avios -> The increase in valuation of IAG Loyalty by having Avios in Australia may be enough to fund the transaction to purchase the airline. Side benefit of hurting Virgin Red's plan to have a global Virgin currency, which helps IAG (who...

Fasten your seatbelt folks. My prediction: QR to buy VA QF leaves oneworld VA joins oneworld All the signs are there if you look hard enough. Save this post.

Do I understand correctly that: - QF domestic flights where flyer has QR/another oneworld FFP#, won't earn any points/SC into their other airline account if not on an international itinerary and the same sector is operated by a competitor where that flyer could earn points/SC into that program...

QF Gold > CX Silver. However, my personal opinion is that I'd probably be crediting to QR. Then get a generic Amex card in Hong Kong for QR/Avios earning. Why QR over the alternatives? - CX might not exist in a few years. - QF is on shaky ground. - QR is running elite status bonuses currently...

There is also Visa and another Singaporean company involved in the card. This new article sums up nicely the 'brand test' Star Alliance is having in oz, and I probably agree that it will ultimately not be great but that doesn't matter much because HSBC will own the customer, and it will be a...

Observations... Fundamentally, HSBC is selling Star Gold for $450. To make real use of the elite status, you must fly internationally. SQ is likely to pick up the bulk of the elites, and they have their own lounges in most places, so costs are likely within a tolerable range. If VA joined Star...

VA wouldn't allow this card to be in the market if they had any intention of joining Star. Just like we won't see Star launch a card in USA, or Singapore, or New Zealand. Look at where HSBC has a strong presense and which of those markets do not have a local Star carrier - that's where future...

For those playing along at home.... this card launching oz is the nail in the coffin for VA joining Star.

Mid-December might be a nice time... things calm down, and I'll be in town ;)

Tentative for SIN Likely yes for KUL pre-whatevers

Good move. I have forced airlines to move me to the same product which I booked when they've swapped a/c. I am ok with airlines price gouging and charging top dollar -- but if they change something like a/c or really mess up something that is implied to be part of the experience they lose all...