Originally Posted by iwrbf
First time post to FT and not sure if this is the right forum but here goes. I am patinum on AA and Prmier on UA. Will be flying business class round trips from SFO - Taipei in Aug, Sep, Oct and Dec. I have lots of miles on AA but not much on UA. Any recommendations on which airline/partner to use? I got my platinum in April using the platinum challenge.
Well, I'm an AA person, so I'm biased......
.... but I'd start by figuring out how many (status qualifying) miles I'd earn on the (at least) 4 BC trips to TPE (preferably using some creative routings to increase the miles) and see whether that, coupled with the AA miles you already have, gets you anywhere close to EXP.