Again thanks all for the useful suggestions. My first thought was to switch to AA as I do most of my domestic mileage run on them anyway and still fly BA internationally. The big drawback is that I also do allot of transatlantic travel and if I changed programs but not airlines I wouldn't earn miles for those flights in my primary program (you can't earn AA miles on BA transat flights). Another draw back is that I would want to then use BA for the long hauls using AA awards or upgrade awards but the cost of BA awards in AA miles is rather high unless one travels to the UK to start the award, for example with BA one can get F class RT. from US to Asia with free stop over in London for 150K miles, on AA's Plan ahead award the same trip costs 240K miles (though UK to Asia is 140K).

Frankly, I would like to stay with AA and thus BA and one world but it seems that with BA's recent move's the alliance may not be as strong as we have been led to believe? Are AA ExP allowed to use the BA First class lounges in London? I know that ExP also get system wide upgrades, anyone know how many? Also one major drawback with AA is that they only credit you for .5 miles per mile flown for discount fares. Might just be time to throw in the towel and start seriously looking at UA and the Star Alliance. What lounges do 1k's have access to in London? Do they have showers?

[This message has been edited by Mvic (edited 09-14-2000).]