Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
What are your objectives from an airline/ffp?
- Upgrades? (Effectively only on the airline of your ffp. Cross airline are much harder,if available)
- Award flights for personal travel?
- Other benefits?
Flying paid business class get most of the benefits of mid level status.
On those routes what airlines are suitable based on schedule/price/what ever? [post 11]
Sticking with 1 airline/ffp/alliance may not be the best outcome
Multiple airline/ffp/alliance may be a better outcome
+1.
The OP really needs to decide what he wants out of an FFP. If his business travel is going to be in paid J, I think it really comes down to:
1. where -- and in what class of service -- does he want to redeem his accumulated miles for when traveling for leisure; and
2. what elite benefits would be useful to him when traveling for leisure -- either on a miles-redemption ticket, or a cash ticket.
Yes, there might be the occasional J ==> F upgrade available on his paid business travel, but if he is in intercontinental J -- or even on trans-continental J on AA -- such an upgrade might be nice, but I'm not sure that I'd base my decision on that.