I asked the forums advice earlier in the year. As a result, I joined Asiana. Currently, I have 13k miles in Asiana miles.

My situation has changed. Instead of the cheapest economy fares, I will be booking business class tickets and/or business award tickets. I expect this will last 3 maybe 4 years. After that I will probably return to flying economy.

I will be watching the premium deal thread for flights from the USA to anywhere in SE Asia. This may result in my flying other alliances.

Since I will be flying business, I will have airline lounge access as well as priority pass lounge access. I am most interested in USA - Asia business awards bought with the fewest miles and availability of those awards. ( Booking awards for 2 people)
I have significant amount of United miles. In addition, I have BA miles, Delta miles and Starwood points.

Normally, I will be traveling on 2 trips, possibly 3 trips from:

FLL to Cebu/Manila/Bangkok/Singapore
ORD to Cebu/Manila/Bangkok/Singapore

This year I will probably only be making one trip.

1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.): FLL or ORD


(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.): I will be booking cheap business class fares.


(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? : 35-55k


(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? None (Working toward *gold with Asiana 13k)


(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? : Decent award availability and pricing of USA to Asia busines awards.


(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc):

FLL/ORD to SE Asia.

FLL/ORD-BKK/CEB/HKG/MNL/SIN/TPE in business (2+ per year). I am willing to fly to the west coast for a good business fare.

My final destination is Manila or Cebu. I can get to MNL/CEB relatively cheaply from other SE Asia cities.

I will also travel within SE Asia.


(7) Preferred Airlines: ANA, Asiana, EVA, Singapore and Thai. (Alphabetical order)


(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you choose your airlines, class of service?): Pleasure. I can choose my airline and class of service.