Hi there

I have been with Skywards for over a year now and have been upgraded to Silver Tier after my first Singapore-London long-haul flight plus some joining bonus points. I'm a student but was working and travelling to Europe once for work and the rest for leisure.

I've enjoyed using the business class lounge at Gate 122 in Dubai and have been upgraded free to Business Class once. My miles redemption has been quite healthy, SIN-KIK/NRT-SIN, SIN-HKG-SIN. My main journeys were mainly Singapore-London as I am now living here. But I have made trips to Paris instead of London and HK instead of Singapore.

The main reason why I stuck with them was that they were generous in offering points on discounted economy (while SQ didn't) and that they were always the cheapest on these routes anyway.

It seems that this isn't the case nowadays. I just booked a Qantas flight as the EK ones were similarly priced with BA and others. I am also being kicked out of Silver with 1,000 tier miles short! I have 25k left, which would be good enough for another free flight to HKG or somewhere near, from Singapore.

I am also a member of Singapore Airlines Krisflyer (although I never fly with them, maybe about 3 times when I was younger) and keep this to collect random miles I make while on Star Alliance partners like Lufthansa etc. But the main reason for maintaining a Krisflyer account is so I can transfer the miles from my Citi PremierMiles card to KF and redeem SQ flights, starting at 70k for a return flight to London. I have yet to make any redemptions, as I am waiting for the very popular 50% sale on miles redemptions.

Back to my Qantas flight, after doing some small research, I decided to redeem my 12k miles for the Singapore-Frankfurt flight on QF with AAdvantage. I hope this was a wise move...

With me now moving to London and with Emirates' fares going up... should I just consider keeping the account dormant and concentrate on oneworld and Star Alliance? BTW, the Citi PremierMiles also enables me to transfer points to the Asia Miles programme (at a low 1:0.4) or even THAI's FFP (1:1). This Singapore-based card is great cos it offers 1 mile for every S$1 spent.

Any comments, advice etc... would be great!