(1) What is your home airport?
DFW
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ?
ECONOMY
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year?
50 - 60k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it?
United Gold
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP?
upgrades, lounges, baggage
(6) Which routes do you fly most often
DFW-SIN (twice a year)
(7) Preferred Airlines
SQ, Emirates (mostly fly United though).
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure?
Pleasure (but it feels like work)
Me and the mrs fly back to SIN twice a year to visit relatives. We also generally take a trip to an EU destination or sometimes Carribean destination. Also sometimes rarely take a domestic flight to east coast. We generally also take a flight from SIN to some other asian destination once a year, usually Bali or Thailand.
The problem is that I will no longer be able to qualify for gold status through mileageplus because of the pqd requirement. I looked back and found I am around 3k - 4k a year. I have read through A3s program in detail and glanced at Asianas. With so many programs out there I thought I would save myself some time and ask here. Would I be better served sticking with star alliance but with one of the above 2 programs. Or would AAdvantage be better in my case. Or is my mileage sufficiently meager enough to just ditch loyalty and start buying the cheapest tickets available. Seems like the benefits of elite status aren't matching the increasing costs of maintaining.