I really hope there's something better for cheap tickets than MileagePlus (Singapore, Aegean, Air Canada?), as it doesn't really work out for me: I didn't get ANY miles for my Lufthansa flight from SFO to Munich, only got 845 miles for ANA San Jose-Tokyo... and MQD's are also just a fraction of the actual price (e.g. $95 for ANA Tokyo-Bangkok, none for Swiss SFO-ZRH), so for example this year having flown ~50k miles on *A, I've earned 24,632 award miles, 44,799 PQM and only $1,553 (so not even silver)...

(1) What is your home airport? SFO (would prefer SJC though if it had more flights...)
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? L, discounted economy on other *A airlines
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? ~50k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? nope
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? good accrual rates for cheap tickets (and of course redemption), I don't care about lounge access
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? Transatlantic, transpacific
(7) Preferred Airlines? No preference (...but I have Chase Sapphire Preferred, so I can transfer to MileagePlus and KrisFlyer)
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Mostly for pleasure and can choose flights even for work related travel