Originally Posted by
BendyTrendy
Hello Everybody
Looking for some advice please for which horse I hitch a ride on......
(1) What is your home airport? MAN
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Can be any.
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 25k-50k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? FB Platinum
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Priority Boarding & Lounge Access
(6) Which routes do you fly most often (UK-EU & UK-ME)
(7) Preferred Airlines Skyteam, as I'm FB Plat
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Work, can choose airlines - Economy for UK-EU, Bus for UK-ME
New job takes me across EU (Economy) & ME(Business) and twice yearly to US (Prem Economy). So far this year I have got FBPlat (from scratch) added with the odd *A flight here and there (as well asQatar before the blockade).
Now it’s likely I will have to use more *A flights next year as some of mydestinations are not serviced by Skyteam easily, so I need to select which *AFF will get me the benefits the quickest. I'm MAN based, so for the EU flightsits either LH or Brussels, but they are going to be low miles, but higherflight #'s. Throwing Turkish into the mix, as a few of the ME destinations havebest routes through IST (and I can status match with my current FB Plat status - I think?)
Thanks for your help......
Given what you've said, TK looks like the best option, especially if you can status match to Elite Plus. I'd avoid LH because they're so mean with the mileage (and in the EU your eco flights could often get you as little as 125 miles a segment). Another option would be SAS - with accrual into A3 (Aegean) you'd get 100-200% miles. That depends on which cities you're getting to from MAN though. MAN-CPH-WAW is fine but if you need to get to cities in Southern Europe it's not as convenient to go via an SK hub.