Hi everyone,

As you can see on my profile, I'm a Star Alliance G* member already and this year, I'm planning to have two trips SIN-ZRH and return, which could earn me around 25,600 miles (flying in Y).

(1) What is your home airport?
SIN

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class?
>50k in Y unrestricted most of the times. But currently accruing on StarAlliance.

(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ?
Economy, full fair usually.

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or, class of service?. Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Yes I can chose the airline but not the class of service. Mostly for work.

(5) Which routes do you fly most often
Mostly in Asia ex SIN to India to the West and Japan to the East. Rarely China.

(6) Do you have FFP status of any kind of OW or other airline at present? What is it?
No but I do have around 3000 miles with BA and 2000 miles with CX.

(7) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Moslty lounge access and priority check-in and luggage handling. Then comes upgrades or good award redemption rate.

(8) Preferred Airlines
Within OW: CX mostly because of my flight pattern around Asia. JAL would be a bit too stretched out.

My intention is not really to jump programme. I am quite happy with Star Alliance for this part of the world but I was thinking that I might as well build up a status with another alliance while I can.

So the question would be: which programme has the lowest mileage requirements to attain Gold status on OW?