Originally Posted by
MonkeyClassDonkey123
(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Reply: Upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, better award access, free lounge access, seat selection, luggage tags.
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
Reply: Fly more than 45 flights a year.
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Reply: Economy
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Pleasure and work. Can not choose airline nor class. Always fly economy and the cheapest.
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
Reply: Stockholm - London. Scandinavian Airlines and British Airways. Flights to Europe from Stockholm and London.
(6) What is your home airport?
Reply: London Heathrow and Stockholm Arlanda
(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?
Reply: I am EuroBonus Gold at the moment and have British Airways American Express card.
(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Reply: Preferred Airline is British Airways. Most common Airline is Scandinavian Airlines.
Other:
Due to the disastrous changed announced by SAS with lounge access and fast track I want to see whether I am better off flying OneWorld or Star Alliance.
Really appreciate all the assistance.
BAEC shows not much love for shorthaul discount economy passengers. The way their tier point system is set up, you'd need to fly 120 segments (60 return flights) between ARN and LHR in order to qualify for mid-tier silver /Oneworld Sapphire status.
The cheapest booking classes earn all of 5 TP on intra-European shorthaul flights, and you need 600 for Silver status, which will grant you lounge access.
You'd much better off with a program allowing segment qualification. Airberlin's topbonus and AAs AAdvantage let you qualify for mid-tier Gold resp. Platinum with 60 segments (30 return flight, even less if connecting). Both have no minimum AB/AA requirements (AA does away with a four-flight minimum for 2017) and let you acquire status without flying them at all.
However, AAs new-for-2017 spend requirements are hard to crack if you only fly shorthaul in discount economy on partners: ARN-LHR on BA in the cheapest booking classes earns the not-so-princely sum of 91 EQD - and you need 6000 for Platinum. So, not ideal.
Topbonus also has a generous status match program gong on (check
Get your status matched on oneworld with air berlin . You'd likely get your Eurobonus status matched and requalification requirements relaxed for the first year (you retain Gold in 2018 with just 20 segments in 2017!), so I'd give that a try for Oneworld.