Hi everyone, I'm a new member here and I thought I would jump in with the burning question they brought me here.

I am UK based, and just taken a position with a company that will have me travelling worldwide, up to 50% of the year. At interview the travel policy was business class, but that's now been cut to economy, though I have got them to settle on Premium Economy. I am expected to travel worldwide, though primarily EMEA and Asia (Japan in October). My home airport is Glasgow.

I currently have 140,000 avios in my BA Executive Club account, and when I go WT+ to Singapore (1st Aug 2014) I will qualify for a silver card.

My question is, whether it's worth continuing with BA or look to switch loyalty programs. My reasoning for this are simple:

1) There is NEVER any opportunity to use Avios for upgrading, so as far as I am concerned I am building them up but to absolutely NO advantage. I have complained twice to BA about the uselessness of Avios to get flights or upgrades, to no avail.

2) MY sole aim to collect points would be to be able to get flights and upgrades.

I have read through the Stickies on flyer programs, however they are gloriously detailed and a little too much info to easily work out the best thing to do.

I would like to ask if anyone would be able to give me a simple suggestion for a couple of alternative programmes to look at where there is a decent Premium Economy option and points that you can actually use.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Kind Regards,

neil m

EDIT: Adding this line - I also pay for my hotels and reclaim them so have the opportunity to build points by use of a credit card etc.