Originally Posted by
kdinino
Ugh Brutal! I have no issues with DL's service and love the wifi --but their FFp program is a joke as we know it and I'd be earning miles in vain or so I can blow 50,000 miles on a domestic trip as that's all that's available.
Unless I see something else, it appears DL fits me best and maybe AA if I know they have wifi. I really wish UA/CO would add this sooner rather than later.
You don't necessarily have to credit to DL. If you're fine with not getting status on DL, you could credit to AS instead. Then you could redeem AS for AS, or DL or AA, etc.
(AS partners with both DL and AA, so you can choose AS as the FFP even if you'll actually be mostly flying DL or AA, as long as you don't care that you won't be earning status on DL or AA.)
For AA, in theory you could research how often WiFi is available on flights between SAN and DFW, and between SAN and ORD. Unfortunately, one of the planes most likely to have WiFi on AA, the M80, is slowly being phased out, and in general, plane changes from one season to another are common on many routes, so what the WiFi outlook is right now for AA flights out of SAN may not be the same half a year from now.