helping a friend here...

If you were based in southeast Asia and fly lots of short Garuda flights (paid/revenue tickets) within the region, which award program(s) would provide the best award/upgrade/redemption possibilities? Most of these tickets would be for low fare class economy seats. Would Garuda's own program yield the best overall options or would another program like Flying Blue or another Skyteam airline's program be the best place to earn miles for flying Garuda? Also, would elite status be achieved faster in another alliance partner's program than in Garuda's own program? Would the elite status level of alliance partners transfer over to the comparable level of recognition on Garuda as members of their own award scheme?

Thanks in advance for any general guidelines you can suggest.

for moderator - same thread here (sorry) - didn't know best place for this??:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/other...-airlines-470/