Hi folks, I would love your advice on an OW FFP! Many thanks in advance.

(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Reply: priority services (business check-in, fasttrack)

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
Reply: <25 some years, 25-50 others.

(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Reply:
50% personal: cheapest
50% work: cap depending on destination.

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: 50% limited choice for personal, more choice for work.

(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
Reply: ZRH return to SFO, PER, SYD. Within Europe.

(6) What is your home airport?
Reply: ZRH

(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?

Reply: 50k QF. 20k LH. Lowest tier in each.


(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Reply:
Most common: QF LX SQ LH
Preferred:
- non-US airlines :-)
- My wife prefers Emirates (her legs actually fit in A380 economy there) and SQ for service.
- My wife heard bad things about LX and Thai for long haul with kids... but that's handwavy.

(9) Extra info:

Upcoming flights:
ZRH-CPH-SFO return on SAS class Z.
ZRH-DXB-SYD-PER-DXB-ZRH on QF (emirates operating) class O and Q.

I booked with SAS thinking about *A since Asiana or Turkish status is valid for 2+ years, so less thinking in the future. I got an amazing fare, so I didn't think about it too much, and business class is a luxury for me

The QF flight was a case of "I'm not worried about FFP, just give me the best/cheapest flight". no *A flights suited us for that (open jaw routing apparently screwed that up). I almost took Etihad to open the books with Asiana, but the flight timing was bad for the kids. So now I look into it, *A is quite limited for the Kangaroo hop, I'm looking at attempting either *A Gold + OWR, or just OWE.

So, I'm looking at TAM and I can't find much discussion on them. I calculated it as QF: 12.5k miles, 150 points (OWR at 300) TAM: 23k points (OWR at 15k, OWE at 50k).

Then I looked at TAM partners, and they've retained a lot of *A partners which is perfect for flying around Europe - best of both alliances? What's the catch?