Stick with QFF for Australia-Europe Discount Economy flights?

[Synthetic]

Hi All,

I have been an avid reader of AFF for months, and I finally joined because I need some advice. I am a QFF NB based in PER with 75 SC and fly OW on Discount Economy. I'm currently at CDG and my planned flights over the coming months are as follows:

Booked using QFF No: CDG-PER (65 SC) (depart in one week)
Booked using QFF No: PER-CDG (95 SC)
Booked using QFF No: CDG-PER (75 SC)
Planned: PER-CDG (likely 75 SC)
Planned: CDG-PER (likely 75 SC)

The first two booked trips have inconsistent SCs due to non-OW legs and creative routing.

Current: 75 SC
Planned: 385 SC
Current + Planned: 460 SC (qualify PS, which is pretty ordinary considering I will have flown almost 60k miles)

After these flights, it is uncertain when I will fly again, although it will always be Discount Economy on OW from PER. I wanted to know:

1) Is it worth switching to another OW FF program? I've heard it is easier to attain status with AAdvantage. Redeeming award flights from PER both domestically and internationally is important to me.

2) If I create an account with another FF program, will it be possible to change my current QFF bookings to credit to that program? As mentioned above my first flight departs in a week. Calling QF is inconvenient due to time zone differences (I'm currently at CDG), although I can email the travel agent who made the bookings.

Thanks,
Synthetic

 

[Dave Noble]

how good another scheme will be depends on what booking class you are ticketed in. If in one that earns miles to AA, then will earn 50% miles so about 4432 miles for each CDG-PER or PER-CDG. 5 one-way trips would earn approx 22160 miles so would be short of gold. If in a high booking class ( KH ) would earn about 44320 miles so easily gold and nearly platinum . If in B class would easily attain Platinum

Need to know exactly trhe routing an airline and booking class to really tell whether AA would be a good choice

As far as changing the FF number, that is easy and could even be done at the airport

Dave

 

[Synthetic]

Thanks Dave,

All of my long legs (LHR/FRA-SIN, SIN-PER) have QF flight numbers. Booking classes for legs already booked (3 of 5 trips booked) are:

QF: MMSSQQ
MA: Y
BA: S

Planned bookings are likely to be in QF: Q class and BA: O class. Is there a handy table that lists the AA status earn rates for different classes on different airlines?

 

[futaris]

American Airlines AAdvantage Participant Airlines
Qantas Airways
Malev Hungarian Airlines
British Airways

 

[Synthetic]

Thanks futuris,

It looks like AAdvantage would be a bad choice, since they don't credit QF Q class flights.