Debsnumpty

We are a family of four moving out to Melbourne at the end of December. We're flying with Qantus Premium Economy - two return flights and four one way London to Melbourne already booked. Hubby is currently Bronze member with BA Airmiles but we're wondering if it would be better to transfer his miles to Qantus as we'll be living in Oz. Any thoughts?
Many thanks

OzTennis

Sorry I can't advise on options but just a comment that Qantas is now in an alliance with Emirates. I'm not sure if you can transfer BA air miles to Qantas and/or Emirates? Others will come along with advice.

Flyer Talk forum is the best place to get information and questions answered on all the major airlines:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/airline-programs-374/

Pick BA, Qantas or Emirates:

eg BA http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/briti...tive-club-446/

See sticky thread at top

Qantas Frequent Flyer http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/qanta...ent-flyer-498/

Emirates Skywards http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/emirates-skywards-490/

Good luck with everything!

Debsnumpty

Thanks very much for taking the time to reply OzTennis. Will try flyertalk.
Debs

verystormy

Unless you are going to be doing other flights, it doesnt matter - the points you get from one flight are not really going to get you anything.

bcworld

You can't transfer his miles to Qantas. However you can use BA Avios for Qantas flights and domestic flights are particularly good value with Avios.

You will need to keep a UK address attached to the BA account as the BA program is closed to Australian residents...I think a hangover to their now dissolved partnership with Qantas.

If he'll be flying a lot domestically then he should sign up for QF...BA bronze is a nothing status and it will be virtually impossible to achieve higher by only flying QF domestic flights.

OzTennis

BA dropped the 'world's favourite airline' tag a while ago; that honour now belongs to Ryanair!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/tr...e-airline.html

roaringmouse

I find it quite astonishing, and a bit concerning, the amount of people who willingly fly with Ryanair.

spouse of scouse

Why's that?

commonwealth

because people are getting poorer and cant afford a proper flight.

spouse of scouse

Nah, I was asking roaringmouse why it's concerning and astonishing, not why people are using them
Originally Posted by roaringmouse
I find it quite astonishing, and a bit concerning, the amount of people who willingly fly with Ryanair.

OzTennis

In a recent Which survey on customer satisfaction for airlines Ryanair was ranked LAST of all the companies surveyed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...gue-table.html

In another survey Ryanair was voted the WORST brand in the UK.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/city-n...ritain-2283987

The picture tells all about most arrogant businessman of the year nominee Michael O'Leary's reaction to customer complaints.

They are notorious for offering seemingly extremely cheap flights and then slugging you for everything from baggage, using a credit card and so on. O'Leary recently was proposing to put meters on the toilet doors to charge people to use them. Their staff are not allowed to recharge their phones in the offices, they aren't allowed to steal a paper clip or envelope etc (Duncan Bannatyne is cut from the same cloth).

Add in the fact that most of their airports are large distances from where you really want to go. One famous Scandinavian one is advertised as one city but lands you in another country.

As said though, despite this, people are forced to use them (and the much better regarded Easyjet).

roaringmouse

For the reasons that OzTennis posted... although saying that, I also find it quite astonishing, and a bit concerning, that he used the Daily Mail and the Mirror to back up his post.

KJCherokee

I flew Ryanair once and swore an oath never to use them again.

To get back on topic, if you join Qantas frequent flyer you can sign up for their QantasCash debit card - a Mastercard that you load with funds via BPay, then use for all your shopping and earn 1 FF point for every $2 you spend. No fees, and if travelling overseas you can load it with GBP, Euros, US$ etc at a locked in exchange rate before you go.

spouse of scouse

Ta Oz, interesting stuff and most of it I didn't know. I've only flown with them once and it was fine, although they did ask for volunteers from the front to move down the back to adjust the weight, so that the plane could take off

Back on topic too, my husband used to rack up tons of Qantas FF points due to his fly in/fly out work. They were great for domestic flights but not so good for international - it always seemed that you could redeem for one way but there were never any award flights available for the other way.

Pollyana

I do pretty well on QFF points, I use them for domestic flights, but also for upgrades on international. Also have a credit card with ANZ that stacks up points pretty fast. Only time I've used them to book international I've used their points plus pay option, which had plenty of options, but maybe I was just lucky!