Originally Posted by
ermintrude
UA is currently a good choice if you can match to/maintain gold. Alaska (strong partnership with AA) is also a good choice and has arguably the best FF program of all US carriers. I would have thought those would be your two main choices considering your criteria.
I could match my oneworld Emerald to UA Gold, I would likely fall short in maintaining though, to do that I would need to move all my travel over to UA/*A which isn't a practical option. I will likely be a 35-40k/year Silver type with UA.
I can't credit UA to Alaska. Alaska predominantly has oneworld partners, not Star.