Hi,

I would be interested if somebody could help me with a recommendation for picking a *A FFP program to concentrate my miles.

The easy things, my reward goals are free flights (likely within North America), and all flights are going to be in Economy.

My flight pattern is a little bit more tricky:
the easy part is about twice a year from the US to Germany (MUC), (including this christmas on LH, JFK-MUC-JFK, Q/S booking category).
the hard part, early next year I'll likely have a couple of flights from NYC (or BDL) to random locations in the US (academic jobmarket, no clue where I'll have to go...), and after that each year a couple of flights in the US (again, no clue about routes/locations.....)

Complicating factor, I've got a Starwood Amex, another potential source of miles.

Currently I have a LH M&M account (about 30k miles,close to a flight award) but the redemption costs for *A award flights seem to be relatively high (and I am miffed because the few miles I actually have keep expiring...)

I thought about using UA, but I don't like the SPG conversion ratio.

Another possibility is AC, any drawbacks I should be aware of there?

So I'd be grateful for any recommendation about whether I should stick with LH or use UA/AC or any other program I haven't mentioned?

Thanks