Originally Posted by czhang

Currently, I am a DL (formerly NW) Silver Medallion which expires soon. I have matched into CO with their promotion to ensure I have some sort of status for 2010 but would like your opinion on a program to primarily earn miles/status with. I reside in PEK and fly economy trans-pacs 2 times a year and may occasionally fly short hops within China. So as you can see, a rather strange situation...I usually just make the lowest tier elite status on the airlines. Now, I would like to know the best program to stick with - in addition to DL and CO, I have accounts with UA and AA (prefer not to be OW as they do not have much of a presence in Asia) as well as AC which I may have used once or twice and QF which I have never used. UA sounds interesting for UGS (which I might make in what, 25 years or so ) and I already have about 50k miles with them and DL seems alright for rollover MQMs, but have me somewhat disappointed compared to NW. Which *A or ST program offers the best benefits for a not-so-frequent flier and is it worth slowly building up miles for lifetime status (I am still young and have pretty much a lifetime ahead of me )?