Originally Posted by
kan148
(1) What is your home airport? IAD.
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy? Discount Y.
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 25k-50k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? UA PremierExecutive, 1P.
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? Mostly transatlantic (last year).
(7) Preferred Airlines. None.
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Pleasure mostly.
I'm just wondering if I should stay at UA or move to OZ program where *G valid for longer terms or switch to AC where SQ redemption are possible. Or, start with OneWorld.
Funny you should ask, I'm sitting at IAD RCC
If you switch, you can kiss away what you say is most important, which would be "frequent" upgrades. I wouldnt change programs if you want any shot at upgrades. Cheap lounge access would = joining AEGEAN since they have the lowest gold requirements of any *A and you can use USA based RCC's when flying domestic economy. Many people will split their plans. Put enough into something like AEGEAN for domestic coach lounge access and then pile the rest of the miles to you MP program. Dont know if there's much to improve on if you want upgrade ability. As they say, YMMV.