Hi everyone,

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!!




its time for my new mileage year to begin and I’m trying to decide which program would be best for me at this point. I have been a Eurobonus diamond member for last several years but because of some bad experiences with SAS, I have been using other star alliance airlines for travel but still maintain my EB membership/status. My typical travel has also recently decreased so I’m just wondering how best I can maximize the benefits of either program to at least achieve/maintain star alliance Gold level. My typical travel now consists of approx 4 round trips from within Scandinavia to US and typically 4-6 domestic (within the US) flights as well. Sometimes I will book a separate United flight in conjunction with my long haul flight as lately it’s been cheaper to do so. The tickets I purchase are typically business class. I am not sure of class codes but typically the United domestic flights say Z , P etc (I’m unfamiliar with that whole system myself but when choosing my united flights I typically choose for price and schedule and whatever that code is, it is. I really don’t even understand why they are different at times when booking on the same route/flight) but anyway, I have read through the information on mileage plus program and still am trying to understand it, and it’s sounding like I might do better just based on my dollar amount spent yearly(?) my transatlantic flights run anywhere from $2500-3800 each and domestics vary greatly but typically $500-1200 so that’s why if I’m understanding the mp program correctly, I’m thinking I can at least achieve silver, and/or gold relatively quickly. I should also mention that I do have an active mp explorer credit card as well, the lowest level one ($95/yr) but have essentially stopped using it due to being in the Eurobonus program for the last few years so it wouldn’t be difficult to use again, especially for booking tickets if switching to the movie program.




Within EU my domestic flights, much like my long hauls, are presently through varied star alliance carriers, in fact I haven’t flown SAS at least for close to the past year and don’t anticipate any more flights with them, at least I will continue to look to other carriers first.




So again, any opinions, thoughts, etc would very much appreciated. Thank you very much!!!


ps. My home airport is CPH but lately I am mostly flying in and out of GOT as I can find cheaper fares and since I’m no longer using SAS, I have to make connections anyway (I used to fly SAS direct from CPH both to east coast and west coast US) but now typically will first change planes in another EU country prior to the long haul, obviously, depending which airline I’m flying on.