Janet

First off, Welcome to FT. Glad to have you here and I hope you find it as useful as I have. Each of the programmes you collect with will have their own pages. Spend some time on each of them. Most will have some sticky posts at the top with FAQs for that forum and programme.

If you decide to do Mileage Runs (MR), there are a couple of forums focused on that.

If you are planning a trip to a specific new country or region, you might want to check that country's or region's forum for info on attractions, airports, transport or other non-airline specific info.

The community buzz forum will allow you to find FT dinners, drinks or Dos. A FT Do is nomally a weekend event with FTs coming together for drinks, dinners and other fun activities. I've made some life long friends at various Dos and I've hosted visiting FTers for drinks in my hometown when I can.

Two final words of advice, use the search function before posting a question and try to be as specific as you can in choosing a forum to post you question in, i.e. BA questions in the BA Forum, German questions in the Germany Forum, Delta questions in the Delta forum.

Again Welcome
mpc1