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Old Aug 12, 2017 | 8:57 pm
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Originally Posted by goodtasting
For the last 10 years, I have been churning United cards, so I've always defaulted to using United as my default FFP, but with me being out here in Singapore and with a RTW trip in plan for next year, I figured this would be a good time to start to ask these questions!

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.)
SIN

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.)
Economy;
When flying within this region, will usually utilize the budget airlines like jetstar, scoot, tiger

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
Usually slightly less than 25k.
However, my gf and I are planning a RTW trip for next summer, so assuming we get a *A rtw ticket, my initial ticket research shows that we'll be flying about 34k miles on the ticket, notwithstanding any additional flights we will use within continents.

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Silver, M&M Senator etc)
None

(5) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Good award redemption rates and upgrades. Currently have lounge access via credit cards, so that's not a big deal at the moment.

(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)
Most often is within South East Asia, but since I am from Hawaii, I will definitely have a minimum of one trip back to Hawaii to visit family per year.

(7) Preferred Airlines
None - whichever is cheapest.

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)
Pleasure
If you want to base status off of that trip, we need to know what theaun carriers will be. Who you fly can make a big difference in earnings for each program.
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