I thought I had a good thing going with AA/OW, but with AA making a ton of bad changes at my level/spend it's time to consider other OW programs!
(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Reply: Priority services, upgrades, free/discounted lounge access. Award availability nice to have.
(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?)
Reply: Right around 50,000 miles and right around 25 sectors.
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
(First, Business, Premium economy, Economy, cheapest)
Reply: Economy/cheapest (work policy)
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Work and pleasure.
Work: International, economy. Choice restricted by availability of routes (see home airport), but in principle I can choose. (Example: I can choose to fly JL metal as AA codeshare). Work has agreement with AA, so OW is preferred.
Pleasure: Can choose airlines but I mainly fly AA on US domestic routes. Looking to fly award in J to Japan this year.
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
(US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: SAN-LHR on BA, SAN-NRT on JL, SAN-DFW on AA
(6) What is your home airport?
(SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)
Reply: SAN, with hometown DFW also an option.
(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?
(AA Executive Platinum, QF Gold, UA 1K, LAN Comodoro, etc)
Reply: AA PLT, 250,000 miles
(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Reply: Most commonly fly AA, prefer JL (but that only applies to flights to Japan)