I'm about to fly from JFK-BOM, which will earn me about 15,000 miles. But it doesn't really do me any good to accrue miles on AI becuase I don't fly it often.

I have miles on Northwest, American and US Air. I understand that AI is joining *Alliance but hasn't done so yet. Any suggestions?

As an alternative, could I credit the miles to someone else's Lufthansa account? Can you credit miles to a name other than what's on the ticket?