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Old Mar 2, 2019, 8:08 am
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Gobber
 
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Monaco
Programs: Amex Plat
Posts: 105
Hi Guys,

(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
(upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, extra baggage allowance, good award redemption rates, better award access, free - discounted lounge access, etc.)
Availability of upgrades and redemptions with lower taxes/charges, priority security&boarding, lounge access (although have PP via Amex Plat), increased bagg. allow.
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
Reply: >50,000 miles & 50+ segments
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
mix of discounted bus/economy
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
80% personal travel, 20% work related
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
SH routes: NCE-TLL, NCE-FRA-TLL, NCE-HEL-TLL
LH routes: ex Scandinavia-South East Asia (poss.other Asia&MidEast)
(6) What is your home airport?
(NCE&TLL, often times in FRA&HEL)
(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
(LH FreqTrav (Silver) 40k MilesMore, QR Silver (almost Gold) 200k QRMiles, AY Blue 20k miles, BAEC 2flights&1k Avios
(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
ShortHaul: *A: (LH&LOT), some AY
LongHaul: QR (interested in AY)

Thoughts.
No direct flight NCE-TLL or NCE-HEL during offseason (OCT-APR). So commuting with 1 stop off-season on LH/LOT get me into lounges, but spending those miles on long-hauls - not really. Could of switched to AY under OW during season (April-October) and thus earning and spending within OW (would be ideal) but the problem is a direct flight from NCE-TLL on *A (LOT) which is more convenient, i.e. 2-2.5 hrs instead of 4-6+hrs.

Even if I need to keep flying *A, what would be the best OW FPP for my case? I tend to switch to BAEC vs AY+ with better availability of OW redemptions/upgrades inside Asia but may be put wrong and AY+ is better? I haven't done spreadsheets/math, which could probably provide the answers, but brainstorming at this stage.
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