Originally Posted by
snod08
Other airlines with lower threshold are Turkish and Asiana.
Cheap fares almost earn nothing on Asiana.
I would suggest reading through Turkish's loyalty program and see if the fares you buy will earn miles on them.
For low mileage flyers, yes Aegean is the fastest way to Star Gold.
I took at a look at the earning tables, and it seems like most of the cheap tickets on the airlines I normally fly earn equivalent miles as they currently do in diamond club. I could easily get 40k miles in 24 months, but then I could really use a *gold card for 2012 (my bd card expires in july, but then it likely won't be star alliance for all that time anyway!). I gather neither status match?
I dunno, what do you guys in the know think: are there many huge differences between asiana and aegean that should sway me either way?