Originally Posted by cheung.chunyuenc

Hi all,
However. I am planning to switch my flights from BA to star alliance flights. Please kindly advise:

(1) What is your home airport? HKG/BRU
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Premium Economy / SAS Plus
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 2-round trips between HKG - BRU (<25K, around 24K miles)
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? Apart from BA Bronze, I also have a NH account but with no status
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Lounge Access, Good award redemption, Soft Expiry of miles
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? BRU-XXX-HKG (Family members can redeem short haul Asia)
(7) Preferred Airlines - SAS (Fare class P or A) - 50%, Lufthansa and Austrian (Fare class N) - 50%
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Pleasure, can choose

I am have a few options in my mind:
1. NH, it is only good redemption (NH flights for my family members from HKG - HND for around 20,000 miles only), earn miles is ok for the above fare classes, but not easy to earn status, hard expiry of miles (3 Years)
2. SK, Earning and Redemption rates are good, hard expiry after 4 years? (Seems cannot not sure redemption availability, and it is not easy for me to pool a lot of miles for Europe - HKG redemption)
3. OZ, easy to earn and for status (*G). But the redemption for short haul is not so good, I need some time to accumulate if I want a BRU-HKG round trip
4. A3, easy to earn status but N/A to me (to be honest, I don't fly to Greece), earnings is good for SAS plus (200%) but 0 for Austrian N, redemption is not too bad, and soft expiry.

Thanks a lot