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Old Dec 19, 2012 | 3:03 pm
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promethe
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: WAW
Programs: LH SEN
Posts: 13
(1) What is your home airport?
WAW and NYC, possibly BRU, SIN or SYD, and NYC next year.

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy?
EKLT/MQ (Y), very occasionally P; i.e. usually deep discount or at least discount.

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year?
BIS well north of 100K; QM ~100K with FTL bonus

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it?
M&M FTL, will qualify for M&M SEN on my New Year's trip to SIN

(5) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Op-ups. Priority access (check-in/security/boarding). Excellent award redemption. Lounge access. (in that order)

(6) Which routes do you fly most often?
Currently NYC-WAW, SFO-WAW, but possibly also BRU-NYC and either SIN-NYC/BRU or SYD-NYC/BRU next year.

(7) Preferred Airlines
LX, LO, LH, possibly SQ next year.

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure?
About 2-4x a month transatlantic for work and conferences. 2-3x a year a trip far away from EU.

I am currently getting it really through with LH. I was upgraded once as an FTL, and majority of my flights is counted at 50% of mileage, what made attaining SEN borderline impossible. Redemption is crap with insane taxes (1000 USD for 2 people to SEA, seriously LH?) and generally bad availability, especially in the season. Turning SEN hopefully will help with the upgrades and availability, but is the grass really greener on the other side? I became unaccustomed to flying as dirt, so the "new" benefits would have to be good. Maybe I should change the alliance and challenge the status altogether?

Currently booked travel for early 2013:
SIN-FRA-WAW - LH in Y on A380
WAW-JFK-WAW - LO in A on B787

Upcoming bookings:
WAW-X-JFK-X-WAW - in C (there) and Y (back)
WAW-JFK-WAW - LO in A on B787

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