Hello all,

Your advice would be much appreciated:

1) What is your home airport? AMS
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Discounted Economy
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? In total around 15.000, one longhaul return and various Intra-european trips, mostly on KLM or whatever offers the best price.
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? None, but quite some Flying Blue miles collected over the past years.
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Long validity time of miles, miles awarded on cheapest booking classes.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? Intra-European
(7) Preferred Airlines? No preference with regards to *A
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Pleasure

I have a LX return flight AMS-ZRH-IST coming up, booking classes are T-T-E-E, so low fares.

Over the past years, I have collected miles on UA and SK's programs but used all the miles in the meantime. Those points came mostly from taking one longhaul flight and than adding some shorthaul points. As I've used all the miles, joining a new program probably gives more sign-up bonus than the (few hundred) remaining miles on either of the programs.

Thanks!