Originally Posted by
bertheike
LH M&M gold 225% rt. 27.000 miles
single award 135k 1 : 5
SEN partner award ( we usually could use ) 101k each 1 : 3,9
I don't get how you reach 225% : you're flying 70% TG, so there is 200% for Business class on any fare bucket and no Executive bonus, or LH/LX 30% of the time and you'd get a 25% bonus but 100%-200% depending on fare. So if you're flying 70% TG, and all your flights in Z on LH/LX, you'd get an average of 23,100 miles per round trip. If you were flying all your flight in full fare business, your average would be 24,900.
The award/paid flight ratio would be 5.42 to 5.84, dropping to 4.37 to 4.06 if you can generally find companion awards to your destination.
AC I see no bonus for flying paid C/F 100 % = 12.000 miles
105 k 1 : 9
Aeroplan is stingy, but not that stingy. The COS bonus is 25% for Business and 50% for first on Lufthansa and Thai (among many others). The true ratio is 7.0.
so from ratio LH and may be TK looks the best.
You didn't mention A3: is it a deliberate choice to avoid the programme of a very small airline that could go the way of the bmi?
Their earn/burn ratio would be 4.58, better than LH unless you're sure you can score companion awards more than 75% of the time.
So it's defenetly up to each flying pattern and noone can say which FFP is the best for all ( exception of course was our loved DC )
Indeed. One should calculate as you did for their planned flights and redemption goals.