(1) What is your home airport? NYC
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Y
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 50-80K
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? None
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Free lounge access, good award redemption, upgrades.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often: Domestic US 50%, NYC-Asia
(7) Preferred Airlines: CX, OZ, NH, SQ, basically any Asian airline preferably *A. Domestic I suppose United or US Airways.
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Mostly for pleasure.

Any and all help is appreciated. I used to be *G with SQ/KF for 5 years straight and Sapphire with CX/MP. Now that I'm back in NYC, I'm thinking UA/CO might be the best option? Or perhaps it would do me better to use an Asian airline?

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I build most of my CC spend in AMEX MR, Chase Sapphire and AMEX SPG, so the ability to transfer from those programs also carries weight to the decision.

2nd EDIT: Since you can't xfer AMEX MR to UA/CO but you can to most other airlines, maybe building elite status in UA is the best option since transferred miles don't really add value except for being redeemable (unless of course elite status reduces award costs in some fashion)?

Thanks in advance