Originally Posted by timster

If you could fly to/from France via Athens then Aegean's (A3) program is another option - used to be easiest qualification out there, and still is easy if you can fly sufficient qualifying legs in 12 months on A3 metal to get the tier miles. Award miles don't expire. Once you have *G with A3 the yearly re-qualification via any miles-earning *A flights is relatively easy (24k miles) with a couple of long hauls or lots of shorter ones.