Originally Posted by
FlyingDanishPenguin
If this is your flight pattern, OP, you shouldn't get frequent flier status anyway. Because you're not a frequent flier nor a valuable customer. (That doesn't mean you aren't a valuable
person 
)
HUH? Someone should be penalized or doesn't travel enough just because they join a FF program well in advance of flying that carrier? Some people would call it good planning to have a FF account with any airline that they might fly.