Originally Posted by
putinbot
That's a good point. I was considering Aegean and I noticed that you need to fly a minimum amount of two flights with them and 24,000 miles to get gold with star alliance
Careful there. You need either 2 flights + 12k miles or 24k miles to reach silver status, and then you need an additional 4 flights + 24k miles or 48k miles to reach gold.
So if you are starting from scratch, you need to collect 6 flights + 42k miles, or 72k miles to reach *G, all this within one year.
When starting from scratch OZ is easier IMHO, while I find TK is easier to maintain with the split requirement over year 1 and year 2 of status.