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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: MCI
Programs: AA Gold 1MM, AS MVP, UA Silver, WN A-List, Marriott LT Titanium, HH Diamond
Posts: 53,012
What's your hotel stay pattern like? You may find it more useful to join a hotel loyalty program and accumulate hotel points to be used for hotel stay awards rather than more FF miles.
For Europe, outside of a KL/AF stronghold city, I'd pretty much always pick *A for my flying.