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Old May 23, 2016 | 8:40 am
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milgom
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Join Date: May 2016
Location: HK
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1) What is your home airport?
Paris 6 months a year
Osaka 3 months a year
Kuala lumpur 3 months a year

Will add Lisbon to the mix in 2 years and reduce the time spent in France

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class?
Roughly 40-50k miles. mostly premium economy on long hauls. I fly 3-4 flights/year in the 10-15k range. For short flights, I just fly economy.
Those flights are split between Star Alliance and One World depending on what the prices and availabilities are.

(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
I try to buy premium economy if available and if it costs less than 40% more than the cheapest fare. I tend to do multi destinations return flights to have a small holiday in a different city when I return.

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Mostly travel for pleasure but some trips are for work. When it's for work, I'm a bit more limited in the class of service I can choose

(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
I mostly fly Europe to either Japan or Malaysia and I usually fly once a year to New York from wherever I am at the moment.

(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
I have Aegean Silver and will probably get gold by next year

I have miles in:
One World:
- Quatar Airways (9k miles) (I could get the silver tier apparently if I credited my next flight to Qatar but it really doesn't seem that useful)
- Enrich Miles with Malaysia Airlines (10k)
- BA 18k Avios
*Alliance
- Aegean 13k miles
Skyteam:
- Aeroflot 9k miles

My credit card gives me a fair amount of miles per dollars spent (I get roughly 210,000 miles per year with it) but only in:
- Asia Miles CX
- Enrich Miles MH
- Krys Flyer SQ


(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?

I don't really have any. I used to really like Malaysia Airlines but they scaled back the number of destinations.
I do not want to fly on Aeroflot or Airfrance ever again.

(7) 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.)

Upgrades on travel, good award redemption, extra baggage allowance., better award access

I don't care that much about lounge access because I will soon have a credit card with Priority Pass select membership


I have a 14.8k miles trip with BA on premium economy coming up and I'm still not sure who I should credit those miles to.

EDIT: I've looked a bit at British Airways redemptions for long hauls and it seems outrageously expensive compared to Asia Miles for example.

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