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Old Jun 10, 2011 | 11:46 am
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snod08
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SAT / MAA / BOM
Programs: CO Plat; UA 1K; EK Gold
Posts: 5,110
Originally Posted by coffeegirl
I was just notified that my Krisflyer status expired back in Dec 2009! I haven't lived in Singapore for the past 9 years so it's understandable, but I was putting all my US airline mileage points onto my Star Alliance with Krisflyer... I'm pretty bummed that for the past 1.5 years I've lost all that mileage So here I am on a search for a new one...

(1) What is your home airport?

Seattle (SEATAC)
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ?
Whatever's cheapest at the time, so economy.
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year?
This varies a lot. Usually one international flight and a handful of domestic flights.
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it?
See above! Now I just have a mileage plan with Alaska Airlines now.
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Frequent upgrades, mileage redemption that does not expire...
(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)
US Domestic & to Asia maybe 1x every other year
(7) Preferred Airlines
Well, Singapore Airlines if I could fly them more often. I used to avoid United like the plague, but I'll take it if it's cheaper and doesn't have layovers, etc. So whatever is good as long as it gets me somewhere quickly and for less money!
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure?
Both. I'm flying to Peru this year via Continental, work usually sends me to Jacksonville so I fly Delta. I get whatever flight I can without a layover if I visit friends and family (DC, Columbus, Hawaii)

Sorry not the most helpful answers. The type of travel and destination varies a lot!
Yes, not very helpful answers.

Currently CO miles do not expire. However, CO is going to be integrated with UA and we dont know the new rules of the new program yet.

If you want any status, you should try to concentrate your flying in one alliance. (instead of flying different airlines from various alliances for your flights).

One Asia trip will probably give you 15K miles or so...(average).
Lowest tier on CO/UA needs 25K miles.

On the other hand, Aegean (A3) needs only 20K miles to get highest status (Star Gold).

If you dont think you will fly much more than 25K miles per year, then consider A3.
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