Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
What is your criteria for best?
What are your objectives with a ffp?
What do you use the ff miles for? [They tend to devalue and you do not get ff mile [I]interest if not used]
What Star UA gold benefits do you use?
What's wrong with UA ffp?
Thanks everyone for responding! Very insightful.
For me the biggest benefit for being *G is the lounge access and priority boarding & priority baggage. I'll never need additional baggage and mile redemption isn't the make or break for me. If MileagePlus offered domestic lounge access I would probably stick with that.
The biggest challenge is I doubt I'd actually fly OZ frequently - and from what I've read only Diamond Plus or Platinum is a chance of an upgrade. Having crunched some basic numbers on planned flights for 2019/2020 I still think I'll take the punt and switch to OZ. I wish they had Premium Economy and a wider Asiana lounge offering.