Originally Posted by
LHR*G
Great work. Maybe you would be able to attach / link to your spreadsheet, as I am sure many of us have started a document called staralliance.xls but haven't had the strength to go any further.
It's on my PC at home, so I can email it tomorrow if anyone wants... However, it is not at all exhaustive, and probably no use to anyone but me - also, after the first few programmes, you quickly get the idea, and if it was worse than the previous ones, I didn't bother to document
But the general principle is that you
only need to check:
1. Where you are mostly likely to earn big (for me, discounted business, plus TG Q, SQ W and UA W - no point checking what you'd earn on short Eurohops)
2. Where you would most like to spend (for me, EU-SE Asia and EU-Oz/NZ, business class)
3. How to get to *G (and e.g. difference between miles and PQM on UA)
4. Non *A partner airlines earning and benefits, in case they sway you
...and that is all you measure the FFP by