Originally Posted by
seminomad
(1) What is your home airport? NBO
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy?
unknown work is paying
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year?
I will be traveling 50-70% of time I am not sure how many miles. I will be taking Kenya Airways more often, but will need a *A FFP to cover miles earned on Ethiopian and South African when applicable. If I am going to earn status it will be with Flying Blue or SkyMiles (and that is a whole other conversation about whether I should switch). Thus my main goal is just to collect the miles because I doubt I will be able to get status.
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it?
I have no status
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP?
good award redemption rates and credit for miles flown as many fares as possible
(6) Which routes do you fly most often?
all over Africa, if a country has refugees, there is a chance I could be going there (with the exception of North Africa). I will earn miles when I work in South Africa and Ethiopia and fly routes not covered by Kenya Airways
(7) Preferred Airlines
I do not like Egyptair's program nor Lufthansas, however I am pretty open to all others. I have looked at American Carriers and African ones, South African's Voyager seems at initial glance to be better than Ethiopian's Shebamiles. Neither airline has a lot of codeshare agreements with other African airlines though.
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Most of my miles will come from work, though I do travel for pleasure.
Pick Aegean. As you seem to not be able to predict number of miles you are flying.
Originally Posted by
joelbra
(1) What is your home airport? LAX
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Y
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? <25K
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? NONE
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Frequent upgrades on travel if I qualified, which seems doubtful, good award redemption rates
(6) Which routes do you fly most often US Domestic
(7) Preferred Airlines - UA - I am accumulating miles to transfer to UA through Chase Sapphire
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Pleasure - I choose
Additional: I am about to go on a RTW in C on Star.
Is the RTW paid with $$ or with miles?
That could make a difference on the program you choose.
Otherwise, your only bet is Aegean.