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Old Sep 16, 2017 | 4:19 pm
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travel_mav
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: New York
Programs: DL PLT, Hilton Diamond, CX MPC Silver
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(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.)
LGA/JFK (and EWR if needed)

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.)
Mainly Y fares (or Y+ for international, perhaps discounted J)

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
<25K/year but considering status runs

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Premier, M&M Senator etc)
CX MPC Silver (OW Ruby), might have AA PLT (OW Sapphire) coming soon depending on the outcome of a status challenge


(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access, etc.)
Earn/burn usability, possible int'l upgrades and lounge access

(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)
Several domestic flights, one or two international annually (all in Y/Y+ depending on price)

(7) Preferred Airlines
*A: UA, LH, SQ

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)
Almost exclusively pleasure

Intrigued by *A Gold status, especially the ones with a 24 mo qualification period. Doing more flying as of late on United for domestic travel due to visiting family in DEN (so Delta/United direct flights from LGA). Previously an AA PLT but did not fly them enough to re-qualify since I was redeeming miles for international premium cabin flights.

Right now I'm considering SQ, OZ, UA and TK for crediting flights to (open to MS airline due to family tier point pooling). I know we're near the end of the calendar year, but looking to credit some upcoming flights and wouldn't mind some status runs to help bring me closer to where I need to be (such as SQ JFK-FRA in J for ~$2K)
LGA-DEN (UA T/V)
JFK-MUC (LH N/K *the latter may become N fare if cash upgrade to prem. econ opens up)

Any thoughts or advice are greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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