Hi bhomburg, just want to say thank you for taking so much time answering me - your advice is really appreciated (even if I do reply quite late!). I learned a lot from what you said.
Well, circumstances made it way easier for me to decide - I have to fly to Astana next month all of a sudden, and from Bangkok to Astana there are basically 0 Star Alliance options as Turkish Elite Plus. So I decided on going with Air Berlin topbonus since if I fly Etihad I get status miles on topbonus. Plus I can (maybe) status match...
Originally Posted by
bhomburg
I only suggested to go with Airberlin topbonus because they will offer a status match from TK (to my knowledge, no other oneworld airline will do this at the moment). The program as such isn't very attractive for you. But you can use your matched status for the benefits while building status on another oneworld airline.
But I read that I need to be a resident of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and USA to do the status match? This will be an issue since I live in Bangkok right now...
Any advice is appreciated!