(1) What is your home airport?
SFO

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ?
Y, but often C

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year?
100k

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it?
I do not. VX mostly to use their cheap F upgrades

(5) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Frequent upgrades and award redemption


(6) Which routes do you fly most often
Domestic: SFO to JFK/BOS/ORD/DAL 5-7 per year
International: SFO to LHR/FRA, SFO to BOM/BLR, SFO-NRT, 3-4 such trips per year

(7) Preferred Airlines
I love Virgin, but their international options are non-existent. I have been hoping and waiting to see if they will join one of the alliances, but looks unlikely. And they are not a good fit going forward since I will have more international travel.

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure?
Work mostly

Suggestions? If (as likely) the suggestion is going to be UA, any comments on how easy are upgrades especially for international flights out of SFO?

Thanks!
S