I'm new to the forum and the first question I was hoping to get help with was choosing between Mileage Plus and Krisflyer as a back up to Qantas. I am currently with Krisflyer and have 17k miles.
I live in Adelaide and have been a Platinum member with Qantas for the past few years and all of my work travel is required to be with Qantas (which is the primary driver behind my platinum status).
For personal overseas holidays (usually only once a year) I will always pick Qantas unless Singapore is considerably cheaper, and usually travel discount economy.
Even though I have 17k miles with Krisflyer my biggest concern is the miles expiry issue. Given my travel patterns (i.e. I am only likely to travel with Singapore (or StarAlliance) once a year - at best) then I can't see how I will ever get enough miles for a reward before they expire. Hence I am tempted to cut my losses and join United. I've tried to search some other threads here and realise that some of the cons of using United is the limited availability of reward flights/destinations out of Adelaide/Australia, and also the need to still keep activity through the account to keep the balance 'alive'.
Given my situation I was hoping someone could advise which option I should go for, and also advise what other issues/factors I should consider in choosing between the two options.
Thanks
I live in Adelaide and have been a Platinum member with Qantas for the past few years and all of my work travel is required to be with Qantas (which is the primary driver behind my platinum status).
For personal overseas holidays (usually only once a year) I will always pick Qantas unless Singapore is considerably cheaper, and usually travel discount economy.
Even though I have 17k miles with Krisflyer my biggest concern is the miles expiry issue. Given my travel patterns (i.e. I am only likely to travel with Singapore (or StarAlliance) once a year - at best) then I can't see how I will ever get enough miles for a reward before they expire. Hence I am tempted to cut my losses and join United. I've tried to search some other threads here and realise that some of the cons of using United is the limited availability of reward flights/destinations out of Adelaide/Australia, and also the need to still keep activity through the account to keep the balance 'alive'.
Given my situation I was hoping someone could advise which option I should go for, and also advise what other issues/factors I should consider in choosing between the two options.
Thanks