Looking for some opinions/advice from the gurus here. Hopefully the information I seek will be helpful to others.
I am Melbourne based and hold gold status with SG having loaded points there rather than UA for the last year. But I normally travel economy and get frustrated by the way SQ favour their PPS members and give virtually no respect to their KF gold pasengers. They even have separate lounges in Singapore and the new KF gold lounge at T3 does not even have showers/toilets.
I have a major client in Singapore and frequently hub out of there to other parts of SE Asia.
I normally go to the states only once a year so the 100% PE bonus is not a big incentive to go back to UA.
I am also one of the many ex-Ansett customers who have 'this guy used to fly Ansett' tattooed to my forehead and only visible to Qantas staff so QF is not high on my list.
I can see three choices:
I am Melbourne based and hold gold status with SG having loaded points there rather than UA for the last year. But I normally travel economy and get frustrated by the way SQ favour their PPS members and give virtually no respect to their KF gold pasengers. They even have separate lounges in Singapore and the new KF gold lounge at T3 does not even have showers/toilets.
I have a major client in Singapore and frequently hub out of there to other parts of SE Asia.
I normally go to the states only once a year so the 100% PE bonus is not a big incentive to go back to UA.
I am also one of the many ex-Ansett customers who have 'this guy used to fly Ansett' tattooed to my forehead and only visible to Qantas staff so QF is not high on my list.
I can see three choices:
1. Switch to Thai but they do not seem to have the flight frequencies out of Australia.
2. Switch the miles back to UA and use Emirates up and down from Melbourne. Again the flight times are not very convenient.
3. Switch to Cathay for the asian stuff and use QF if I have to go MEL SIN. At least I know that CZ give good support to Marco Polo members in economy.
I don't see a lot of discussion here comparing CX SQ and TG programs and would appreciate some comments.2. Switch the miles back to UA and use Emirates up and down from Melbourne. Again the flight times are not very convenient.
3. Switch to Cathay for the asian stuff and use QF if I have to go MEL SIN. At least I know that CZ give good support to Marco Polo members in economy.