Hello all,

I'm thinking to join a Millage Program. I'm not very frequent flyer, coz now I'm a student. I'm base of US, and fly to China once a year. My question is which program is the best in terms of earning mileages and redeem milages to buy tickets. Appreciate in advance.

I have a few sub-confusions.

1.Seems UA's 5X fare is really suck for accumulating mileages. For instance, my UA tickets to China costs $1100 dollars, which gives me 5500 miles. Whereas if I put my miles to other *A program, I would get 17000 total miles*50% class discount=8500 miles, which is much better than UA Is my calculation correct abt UA?

2. Regarding using mileage to buy tickets. By using other *A programs' miles, say OZ or A3 to buy round trip within the US on UA. I saw it costs 25000 miles. Is this procedure usually easy? Any hassle? Could someone explain in details?

Thanks you very much.