(1) What is your home airport?
DTW/BER

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ?
U, T, K

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year?
Not much, about 20K - 25K per year

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it?
NO status

(5) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Rewards, free baggage, better flying conditions

(6) Which routes do you fly most often?
DTW - BER, DTW - CUN, plus another random international destination once a year, mostly Europe, South and Central America.

(7) Preferred Airlines
open to any, Delta, American, United, Lufthansa have been the most used.

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure?
80% pleasure, 20% work, it all comes out of my wallet though.

I will mostly travel with my wife and kids, ages 6 and under 1. I want whatever makes flying internationally easier. Upgrades seem out of the question due to our travel patterns and the kids, so I think baggage allowance, ease of travel and reward travel are the only things we have to shoot for. I have looked over Asiana, Agean and Turkish extensively and it seems that I should go with either Asiana or Agean. The stopper for Agean seemed to be that I would almost always travel on United or Lufthansa and the tickets classes I fly in are limited to 50% rewards. I checked the ticket classes that give full rewards and the higher price did not justify the 100% payout in rewards. Asiana seems right, but they only pay 75% rewards to kids 12 and under as I read it. It will take longer to reach status with them as well, but it might be easier to keep once reached with our patterns. The family plan has a very small benefit for us, as we also have family members in BER that could join and share their miles. They fly BER - DTW once every three years. They will never reach status and we would simply use their miles to get our rewards tickets sooner. One concern is how easy reward tickets would be to get if we move to Asiana. As a final note, everyone mentioned here has between 20 - 40 K in FF miles on Delta right now, but only once has any of us reached silver with them, prompting us to look at other plans. Is Asiana right for us or should we look again at Agean or another FF program? Is there a credit card rewards program that I should look at to increase my rewards earnings at our flying pattern level?