(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.)

SFO

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.)

Non-Refundable Economy

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)

100k

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Premier, M&M Senator etc)

1K on UA

(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access, etc.)

Frequent upgrades

(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)

US Domestic SFO-ORD, 2 long international trips of 4 weeks or so every year to Asia

(7) Preferred Airlines

ANA/Thai

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)

Work

GENERAL INFORMATION:

I fly about 45k Domestic 55k int'l a year mostly for work. I just hit 1k this year, but I rarely get upgrades due to me flying out of SFO. Any options better that UA as I fly to Asia often? Mainly HND/NRT but also to BKK.