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Old Jul 24, 2018 | 7:51 pm
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geoshina
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Join Date: Jan 2013
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Hey guys, I'm a brazilian frequent flyer and every since TAP has increased their mile redemption this last April, I don't think it's worth keeping up with them. So I think now it's time to change programs and I really don't know where to put my *A miles.

Se here are the answering of the wikiquestions:

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.)
- Pretty much SJP (look it up lol), GRU and GIG

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.)
- Y fare whenever I fly domestically and other than that some discounted business class (P, J). Sometimes I give myself a First Class ticket, but not so often as I would like.

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
- around 30k

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Silver, M&M Senator etc)
- I am currently Latam Fidelidade Black signature (OW Emerald), AA Executive Platinum, Delta Platinum Medallion (Skyteam Elite Plus), Gol Diamante, Tap Victoria Gold.

(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access, etc.)
- For OneWorld it would be frequent upgrades on travel;
- For Star Alliance it would be good award redemption rates (without these terrible YQ taxes);

(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)
- I do a lot of South America to US (MIA, JFK,DFW,ATL) and South America to Europe (LIS,MAD, LHR,MXP,FCO,FRA). From US or Europe I usually fly to Asia (TYO, ICN, SIN, BKK)

(7) Preferred Airlines
- Lufthansa and Swiss
- while flying in Asia: Singapore Airlines

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)
I do both and I can choose my airlines


I have two upcoming trips flying LH + LX, being:
- GRU-FRA with LH + LX in P fare . R/T
- CDG-GIG with LH in A (transatlantic) and J (europe) fare. R/T

Other than that, I only need 38.000 status miles with TAP to keep up with VictoriaGold. But once I get there I doubt how I would be able to use the miles to make any redemption (even though I can transfer them from my creditcard).
I also have Avianca Brasil (O6) as an option, but they don't earn any miles in the P class of the LH group. The good thing is that I can also transfer from my credit-card and sometimes they give 100% bonus on transfers. But they don't serve my city (only Latam and Azul does)
The only good think I can see in TAP right now is that I can nominate another person to have Gold status as well. My partner loves it, lol.

Other options I'm thinking about it:

- United: easy to use miles. Credit LH P fare and I just need to make 4 flights with them (which I could arrange since I'll be in the US next november).
- Aegean: I once use to put my miles there. They do credit LH P fare. The only thing I'm afraid is their fuel surcharge cost.
- Asiana: look really good, but other than that I dunno if it would be a good option for me.

This is it. What would you guys, *A masters, would do?

Thank you in advance!
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