(1) What is your home airport? ZRH/BSL
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy? Economy, lowest prices typically S,T,K, sometimes M,L,U and Y
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 50-80k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? I just lost Aegean Miles&Bonus Gold (now have silver), Silver Miles & More
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Lounge access, priority services, award redemptions. Upgrades would be nice (never tried!)
(6) Which routes do you fly most often Transatlantic. Some domestic Europe or US.
(7) Preferred Airlines Lufthansa, Swiss
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Work (mostly) and pleasure (2-3x/year). I can choose airlines, routes. Can't book business though.

I should note that I'm just coming out of a frustrating stint with Aegean Airlines' Miles & Bonus program. I've had Star Alliance gold status with them for two years now, and I am aware of the changes they made in 2015 to their program (upping the difficulty of getting and keeping gold status). Still, last year I qualified for gold status without any trouble or thought.

However, after flying transatlantic 8-10 times this year, to Asia twice, and on many domestic European and US flights, I just discovered that all but 1 or 2 flights this entire year were ineligible for *any* miles whatsoever. This is because several flights were booked in classes T and K. I am used to getting only 50% for my miles when flying on a cheaper economy fare, but it seems in the past year either more fare classes were diluted, or many airlines have switched to selling more of these discounted (and ineligible) fares. All I know is that I had kept an eye on my fare classes in the past and almost 100% of flights I booked would earn me at least 50% miles. I don't know what happened in the past year–I flew a ton, but I have almost no miles to show for it.

For the amount I fly (~60-70k miles this year), and the amount of torment and stress I'm put through by airlines, I have to say that I'm quite angry that I've only been credited for 8k miles, total. Lost my gold status.

Is there anything out there that's better than Miles & Bonus for Star Alliance elite status?