(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.)
LAX
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.)
Usually discount Economy or Business.
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
I would say around 125K-150K
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Premier, M&M Senator etc)
AA Executive Platinum. Had Aegean but wasn't able to keep the *G renewal this year due to lack of *A travel (mostly was on AA, the amount of flights I would have had to book for a mile run to keep Aegean was a bit expensive), but next year should pick up.
(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.)
Just *G lounge access and priority boarding.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)
For *A, mostly international.
(7) Preferred Airlines
Usually only fly United, Air Canada, South Africa for *A
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you choose your airlines, class of service?)
Work, so a majority of the time it's either I pick Economy for domestic or International, or have PE or Biz booked for me international.
I'm leaning to OZ since the 40k over two years seems pretty doable, especially since I can have down years where I fly less *A. Turkish seems to earn a bit more mile % but one year might be difficult.