Originally Posted by Wingnut

I'm going to have a few SkyTeam flights over the next few years. Not many (my primary FFP is OW, secondary *A), but a few, so I need somewhere to put them.

There won't be enough flying to make status relevant, I'm interested in awards. Not just redemption rates, but also ease of finding availability and booking (on partners as well as home airline). I'm most likely to top-up miles with American Express reward points, hence narrowing the selection to Delta and FlyingBlue (I suppose I could consider Alitalia too...). Delta seems to have the edge there with a 30min transfer time from Amex, which would be useful in terms of securing reward availability I imagine.

A mechanism to either "pool" miles or at least transfer them between family members would be useful too.