Asia Miles, QF FF or Air NZ on CX flights?

[Flower25]

Hi all - new to this so apols if posting in wrong place. My family (2x adults and 2x kids) will be flying on Cathay from CHC to DEL via HKG - S class on the way there and L on the return. Qantas FF website says won't give FF points for S class flights only L and can't determine how many as doesn't include HKG or DEL on the destination list. AirNZ will possibly give AirPoints on the CHC-HKG flights but not the HKG-DEL legs. Therefore looking at opening Asia Miles accounts but concerned will end up with orphan miles on an airline we won't use much that are not enough to fly around the airport. How does their redemption group work - i.e. do we get charged the US$170 service fee (x3) to pool our miles together (which doubt would meet the 10k miles threshold anyway)? We would then likely use them for QF domestic/trans Tasman award seats. Any advice gratefully received!

 

[serfty]

Welcome to AFF @Flower25 You can calculate the QFF earn manually.

Look here for the earning category for L class on CX with QFF: Frequent Flyer - Flying Qantas and Partner Airlines - Flying with Qantas & Jetstar - Earning Qantas Points

Look here for the rate of earning of that category for travel on CX with QFF: Frequent Flyer - Flying Qantas and Partner Airlines - Flying with Qantas & Jetstar - Earning Qantas Points

Look here for an estimate of the distance QFF would calculate earn on for CHX-xHKG-DEL: www.gcmap.com

It's "Simpler & Fairer" in action!

 

[SeatBackForward]

The answer lays in where you'll think you'll earn future points. Rarely is one flight/trip alone worth enough redeemable points for anything of value.

But if you continue to earn from other flights or expenditure into the same program, it'll eventually become worth something.

 

[henrus]

oints for S class flights only L and can't determine how many as doesn't include HKG or DEL on the

Can you please list all the flights and the fare types so we've got a better idea of what you can potentially earn?

AirNZ will possibly give AirPoints on the CHC-HKG flights

They won't in S class, only in L will CHC-HKG oneway earn 26 Airpoints (no status points are earned).

 

[andye]

Taking into account the orphan miles issue,BA is an option
L & S will only credit at 25% but you can set up a household account and you can use small numbers of Avios on short-haul flights

 

[serfty]

Can you please list all the flights and the fare types so we've got a better idea of what you can potentially earn?

See my first main link in post two.

 

[Flower25]

Thanks to you all for your comments. Good idea andye on the BA - I have Exec Club membership in amongst the myriad of other FFs. Thinking the way to go is to get the QF points for the S class - looks as though will get status points (55?) which would take me to silver so worth it for that. Will then look at digging out the Exec Club and adding the S class flights to them and opening accounts for kids. Isn't there a thing about them not letting AU/NZ residents join the Exec Club? They have British passports and address in UK though still so should be ok . Or else open Asia Miles/Marco Polo but won't add to booking before travel in case it is added to the return the option of choosing QF FF on the L class? I feel I am waaaay over thinking a relatively minute amount of miles but I guess all worth something! Serfty thanks for the links - yes see no discount economy on CX. Flight numbers are as follows:

CX126 CHC-HKG S class
CX679 HKG-DEL S class
CX694 DEL-HKG L class
CX129 HKG-CHC L class

Thanks again for all your help. F

 

[henrus]

See my first main link in post two.

Was actually talking about crediting to other carriers. Qantas earning on Cathay is not great (to put it nicely). Aside from this, S Class hasn't credited from Cathay to Qantas for a while now so quite pointless...

CX126 CHC-HKG S class
CX679 HKG-DEL S class
CX694 DEL-HKG L class
CX129 HKG-CHC L class

I'd have a look at Finnair Plus...

Finnair still credit Cathay S class at the reasonably high rate of 50% with L class earning 100% (of distance flown). This should earn 19789 finnair award points per person and better still, they allow free family transfers (must set up everyones account and add them to a group prior to travel).

With a total of 79156 award points you could get some award seats on Qantas.

Finnair charges 40,000 award points for a round trip ticket anywhere between Australia and New Zealand (including domestic Australian flights) or 24,000 for a oneway ticket. They also sell miles so you should be able to get the missing ~1000 points needed to get two round trip tickets.

 

[serfty]

Was actually talking about crediting to other carriers.

In that case, have a look at www.wheretocredit.com

 

[Flower25]

Thanks henrus and serfty - I think we will go ahead with Finnair. Although it means opening more FF accounts, 2 x trans Tasman return flights seems pretty good return off our CX flights. If only QF would put on a CHC-Perth flight now that would be amazing bang for your 40k buck! We will then be flying to Oz a few days after CX flights so will use the those to bolster the Finnair points on one leg and QF status on the other. Thanks ever so AFF community for helping me with this. F