Originally Posted by cristo

(1) What is your home airport? MAN

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Discount economy

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 30-40K

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? BD*G

(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Lounge access, upgrades would be nice

(6) Which routes do you fly most often Transatlantic MAN-ORD

(7) Preferred Airlines none really, but mostly fly united

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Both, but more pleasure


I'm needing to find another FF program with diamond club inevitably closing in the coming months. I'm really not sure what to do: I liked the low threshold for gold with diamond club and, while I fly united a lot, I have little chance of making *G on them. I've never really got into the hang of using my miles, though (something which probably sounds sacrilegious to most of you here!).

I've toyed with the idea of joining A3, since I would like to keep my status with *A when we get absorbed into oneworld, but I'm not sure jumping into a small airline's program is best for the long term.

Anyway, any advice would be much appreciated.