(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Lounge access, upgrades on travel, good upgrade options

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
In europe about 20k miles a year, around 30-45 segments.

(3) What types of fares do you usually buy ?
Economy (with luggage)

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Airline most flown? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Travel for work (AY) plus few holiday flights (any OW carrier) a year in Y+ or C, My flying for work is only FRA-HEL-FRA (AY).

(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often
FRA-HEL-FRA (AY)

(6) What is your home airport?
FRA

(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in an airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
AY+ Silver (OW ruby). Some 60k points there.

(8) Preferred Airlines
Any OW

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Hi everyone,

The main question here is the choice between BAEC / AY+ I guess. I have for this year most likely 10x FRA-HEL-FRA flights with AY and the awesome QR BRU-DOH-NRT-DOH-BRU in J booked.

The QR flights would get me 560 TP for BAEC as well as ~20k avios OR ~30k points for Finnair.

Normally my work flights in economy books into N or O class which only gives 240 avios and 5TP per segment.

So I could just take some MR to get 40TP and BAEC Silver or keep crediting points for Finnair. With the QR flights and annual work flights I should make 30k (QR) + 40k (work) = 70k out of required 80k for AY+ gold.

The BAEC Silver (OWS) would be possible to get basicly immediately after my QR flight + some MR. And as I am not BAEC member yet, to get most out of the BAEC Silver I should join just before my QR flights in May, bank in 560 TP from those and then get the missing 40 TP and thus enjoy BAEC Silver benefits for almost full 2 years (running year + the following?).

Does BAEC Silver (OWS) get op-ups with other OW airlines often?

Thanks for helping me to decide!