Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
Questions
For members asking for information, to help people to assist you, can you please provide:
(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
(upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, extra baggage allowance, good award redemption rates, better award access, free - discounted lounge access, etc.)
Good redemption rates, upgrades, lounge access, in that order.
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Mwenenzi
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
(<25000, 25000-50000, >50000 miles - <25, 25-50, >50 flights?)
Between 20 and 30 flights, around 25000-35000 actual miles. It varies a bit.
Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ?
(First, Business, Premium economy, Economy, cheapest)
Mostly economy or premium economy.
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Mwenenzi
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Airline most flown? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Mostly free to choose flight routing. Most travel is for business. Airline most flown is Delta at the moment.
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Mwenenzi
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often
(US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Mostly US domestic, PBI-SEA, PBI-DFW, PBI-IAD for work. Personal international flights PBI-OSL or FLL-OSL once per year or so. Would like to amass miles for international travel to Asia/Oceania for vacation (making it to Australia on miles, especially in business/first, would be awesome.
I should note that I do a lot of domestic travel, both personal and business, by car. This is in part because I enjoy road trips, and in part because I prefer to avoid the lines, security theater, cramped airplane seats etc whenever practical. However, getting NEXUS has admittedly made the security theater less painful, and while I'll never get on an airplane to do "mileage runs", I'd consider replacing some road trips with flights if it helps me meet some threshold for status or earn enough miles for a particular flight.
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Mwenenzi
(6) What is your home airport?
(SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)
Home airport is PBI. Can also easily get to FLL, and would be happy to drive to MCO or MIA if it saves me money on fares, especially for personal travel.
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Mwenenzi
(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in an airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
(AA Executive Platinum, UA 1K, LAN Comodoro, etc)
Currently, 50K with Delta; 35K with United (but trying to avoid United); 26K on Alaska. No actual status with anyone.
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Mwenenzi
(8) Preferred Airlines
Reply: Delta for domestic; Qatar Airways impressed me in the past internationally. Trying to avoid United.
I've noticed Delta seems to offer me pretty good options if I'm willing to take a stopover. Basically, PBI -> ATL -> huge list of destinations, both domestic and international. For that reason, I'm thinking Delta's program might make sense for me (and I might apply for a Delta Skymiles card once I've completed a planned RV purchase.) But I'm having a hard time comparing programs and figuring out the best way to earn status, and would appreciate feedback from more experienced FTers.
