(1) What is your home airport? LAX
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? COACH
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 50K - 75K
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? None
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Class upgrades, priority check in, lounge access, redemption.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? TransPacific mostly to HKG, BKK
(7) Preferred Airlines - United Airlines, Asiana, Singapore, ANA.
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Mostly work, but family vacations at least once or twice per year


Hi fellow fliers, new poster here. Trying to decide which FFP program to join. Based out of LAX, starting next year I will be travelling to HKG atleast 3-4 times per year, and maybe BKK 2-3 times per year. Should I rather join United Mileage Plus, or one of the Asian carriers in Star Alliance. I am also open to the option of joining Marco Polo with Cathay Pacific and the fact that they have direct flight to HKG. But there coach tickets are obviously more expensive on the HKG route then the other asian carriers and hesitant on the fact that Oneworld has less airline partnes then say Star Alliance. Any advice is much appreciated. Happy travels!!