After the nerfing of the UA MileagePlus program via dynamic award award pricing, I am looking for a new *A program.

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.)

ZRH/MUC

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.)

Y (cheapest possible).

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)

2-3 long-haul r/t + a dozen or so short-haul sectors.

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Silver, M&M Senator etc)

None.

(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access, etc.)

Redeemable miles to use for $-saving redemptions in Y. No hard expiry (i.e. extendable expiry dates).

(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)

TATL and EU-JNB/CPT, as well as intra-EU and occasional US domestics.
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(7) Preferred Airlines

Not really bothered, but LX is the *A carrier I use the most.

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)

Pure pleasure. I am now semi-retired and fund all my own travel.

I realise that, with my style of travel, I am not going to get much from any FFP, but not much is better than nothing.

Before the move to dynamic award pricing, UA suited me well. Now, I am really struggling to find any value anywhere.

I discontinued LH M&M a few years ago, due to hard expiry and cash fees on award flights. Now I am wondering if it might be the best of a bad lot. I could get around the expiry by getting an Austrian credit card and the fees by using the miles solely on US domestics, but I would be interested to know if I can find something better.