Exactly, Rudi and if you fly C or F it gets even better:

o UA 500 + 125 class bonus x 4 = 2.500 (2.000 status)
o LH 1250 + 1250 class bonus x 4 = 10.000 (all status)

UA doesn't give you any status bonus on other * carriers ... LH does

so it gets even better:

The final portion of my C - RTW earns 86.228 M&M miles (all status). If I'd do this with my MP account it would get me 33.812 (just the actual mileage of some 26k miles being status) which is more than 50k miles ABOVE MP. (or 155%). Adding some 10k premex bonus
would make a bit better ... on the bonus count only, of course.

Looking at the US segs alone (some 4k actual flt. miles / 10 segs) it is 32.500 M&M miles to 7.200 with MP.

Even with a trip like that, you didn't even make it Premex with MP halfway. With M&M you are just 14 k miles short of the 100's.

But once again ... this is Biz and F ONLY.