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Kiwi Flyer
Fairly limited benefits until you reach lifetime status. Depending on your travel patterns that could be many years away, by which time the lifetime status might not exist (grandfather existing), or require more miles to attain (e.g. 1 million), and/or have reduced benefits.
Conversely crediting to another program might get you more significant benefits in the meantime.
There is no right answer. It depends on your travel patterns, what you value from a programme (e.g. lounge access, awards, upgrades), risk tolerances (for the programmes changing), etc.
I do have a question though regarding the Lifetime Status for the 500k miles flown does it have a time limit or say I gained KE Morning Clam reaching 50k. and then extend it by flying 30k again and accumulate more miles as months pass by. Does it allow you say you gain KE morning clam 2018 and reach 500k miles by say 2020, would you get the Lifetime status regardless of when you gained it?