Originally Posted by
YOWkid
Disagree completely. While the focus of the FF program will always be on the mother carrier, every FF that is part of an alliance is effective competition as you can cross earn.
While I would agree this is true for perhaps 90% of FFs, it is not if you are purely a domestic AC traveller. Then you're pretty much stuck. UA 1K isn't going to give you squat if you're just within Canada.