Originally Posted by
snufkin
Hello there!
(1) What is your home airport? LHR CDG RUN
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? economy/discounted economy plus the occasional business trip in J
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? between 25 and 50
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? qr burgundy (one flight, that's a joke
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(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? good award redemption rates.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? Europe to China (CDG/LHR->PEK/PVG) and ORY/RUN and wherever my work send me.
(7) Preferred Airlines no preference so far...SQ(?) I like their service but I don't fly them much.
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? economy when I travel for leisure. Can't choose the airline for work.
As a side note, I am not a big *A flyer, but I just think it is a shame to waste those miles. I usually fly BA from LHR and AF from ORY/CDG and UU is my favorite airline to/from RUN...
Thanks for your help.
That one is incredibly hard to choose. Given you're only using *A quite a little, it might make sense to choose whatever program doesn't have an expiry date on their miles. For status only, A3 would probably be the best choice, unless the occassional C flight you've will be on LH, then it might make sense to go with M&M, if you can at least requalify for it every second year (35k miles) to FTL. Still, having your flights spread out over several alliances is always quite bad for achieving status, so unless they allow you to concentrate your flights a bit more onto *A, I don't see very much to gain.