Each flyer mile program has its own status levels, but those who are in the big alliances (OneWorld, StarAlliance, SkyTeam) honor the status levels of their partner airlines at certain levels. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Al...ers_by_airline)

So your US Airways silver is equivalent to someone who has All Nippon Airways 'Bronze' or Turkish Airways 'Classic Plus'... etc. All of those programs have different qualifying requirements. What I was suggesting is that another program (Like Aegean Miles and Bonus) would get you the equivalent of Gold status, for the same amount of miles that you already fly.

That gets you lounge access, but of course it doesn't help you at all for earning miles for a honeymoon, since Aegean Miles can't be transferred to US Airways...

That's why I asked about your goals. Good advise for getting status may be bad advise for reaching a different goal (like a honeymoon award flight on US Airways.)