Hi FlyerTalkers,

I wanted to ask your opinion of both Continental and United's mileage programs. Browsing through the threads on Mileage Plus, it seems like there are a ton of problems with program.

As it stands right now, I have 25,000 United points from CC use and light flying over the past few months.

In the next few months, however, I have some big point accruals coming up:

25,000 coming in from another Chase rewards CC
10,000 bonus for graduating college

plus 20,000 dollars cash to place in accounts to accrue mileage. Potentially another 30,000 right there.

That said, I think Continental's program might be more suited to my current needs. I can exchange the 25,000 points on the Chase rewards for Continental miles. Didn't see anything about a college grad bonus. I'm assuming OnePass has similar deals for opening up brokerage accounts.

What attracted me to Continental was the low mileage for flights to South America (I'm moving to Argentina this week). Also, RTW tix are 140,000 miles, as opposed to 200,000 for United.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance
Dan