Hi all. Looking for a bit of help, as I'm fairly disillusioned with BA and heavily considering trying to get a Status Match / Challenge in the new year. I'm also seriously weighing up the possibility of moving to mainland Europe in a couple of years, so I wouldn't be as restricted by their stranglehold on LHR.

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.) LHR
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.) Rather depends. Primarily Y for work / SH. Occasionally C/Z (though more likely Y) for work on LH. C for pleasure / LH.
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k) Significantly >50k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Premier, M&M Senator etc) With BA, it will be Gold by the end of my current collection period. No status w/ UA, but around 14k miles sitting there collecting dust.
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access, etc.) All of the above.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc) Differs heavily. Primarily within EU, but approx 10-15 LH per year.
(7) Preferred Airlines N/A
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you choose your airlines, class of service?) Both, primarily work. Can choose within reason; will generally travel Y for work.

I was looking recently at Miles & More w/ LH/LX, and imagine I'd be very likely to get SEN status fairly quickly. A few questions on that, though;

1/ After achieving FTL, and requiring 75k more for SEN, is that number actually reduced to 56.25k given the 25% enhancement / if so, would that only be applicable on LH/LX flights?
2/ Presumably, in the case of above, that would mean, in actual terms, only 75k status miles would be required to re-qualify over the 2 year period?
3/ Is it at all likely M&M would change their lifetime status to award those under 60 w/ the required miles?
4/ In the case of re-qualifying in the first year, having read this forum a bit I presume the second is simply a 'dead' year in terms of status miles? i.e. If I earned the required 100k, and then the next year did again, my membership would not simply get lengthened, but I would have to earn 100k in the third(+fourth) year?
5/ Do airlines within the alliance tend to award a smaller % on status miles (I think I read TK offer only 25% of the miles flown?).

I think that's about it for now. Thanks for any help. If there are better programs for my wants/needs (I didn't really investigate the other schemes so much), I'd love to hear so.