Hello guys, I'm new here and I hope to get some good suggestions from you. I don't fly as much as many of you, only 2~4 long-haul trips a year. Currently I'm using China Southern Airline Sky Pearl FFP for easy status earning. I fly primary on discounted economy tickets on round flights HEL-AMS-PVG-WUH or HEL-CDG-WUH and I'm using majority only AF/KL. The nice thing why I have chosen CZ FFP is because they used to give 100% miles for discounted L, T classes so that I can easily earn Elite with only 2 return flights a year or Elite Plus with 4 per year. CZ even allows free lounge access with Elite status on CZ flights, and also it costs little miles to redeem a short-haul domestic ticket in China (10000km to redeem domestic flights above 800km). But unfortunately they have revised the rules after 10th Apr 2012 that discounted classes such as L, T on AF/KL are counted only 40%. They still give 100% for all classes on Aeroflot, but I'm not so keen to use Aeroflot instead of AF/KL. I found similar threads on this forum asking which Skyteam FFP to choose, but I think their situations were quite different than mine. I'm trying to find a best substitution FFP for Sky Pearl since I can't earn so easily Elite Plus or Elite any more if I go on with their new rules. My primary goal is to earn status as easy as the previous Sky Pearl FFP by flying 2~4 round trips per year with AF/KL discounted classes, and secondary goal is to redeem some tickets for short-haul domestic flights. I think Skymiles is the only one at the moment which gives 100% for AF/KL discounted classes, but it costs a lot of miles to redeem a domestic ticket (15000miles compared to 10000km on CZ), also Skymiles cannot have lounge access with only Elite status as in some years I cannot earn enough miles for Elite Plus. Then with FB it's impossible for me to earn status based on the miles since it gives only 25% or 50% on those discounted classes but only possible with number of qualifying flights. Again it cannot have lounge access with only Elite status and obviously even worse to redeem flights since I will get much less FB miles than Skymiles. I think Sky Pearl has really been the most generous FFP at least for me in the past, but now which FFP should I switch to? Skymiles or FB, or some even better FFP do you recommend? Thank you in advance.