(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.)

Reply: I would portion my interests in obtaining OW status accordingly:

- 40% AA lounge access when flying domestically for work in mix of J/Y.

- 25% AA upgrades domestically (obviously not realistically available if I don't choose AA as my program)

- 15% ability to generate useful miles for booking J/F tickets

- 10% OW status benefits internationally when flying Y (priority seating, baggage, etc)

- 5% ability to book/cancel OW awards without penalty

- 5% OW lounge access internationally (Most of my int'l travel is in J, so I'd be interested in OW F lounges if I can procure that status)

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?

Reply: For OW purposes, I already have the following booked from Feb-Jul 2020:

- JFK-LAX-MEL-SYD on AA in J (fare class R)

- JFK-LHR-OPO on BA in F (fare class A)

- CMN-MAD-DFW/LAX-JFK-MAD-CMN on AA in J (fare classes D/I, AA mistake fare)

- JFK-HKG in on CX in F (fare class A, return on the CX mistake fare to Vietnam)

I expect to otherwise fly about 50,000 miles domestically within the US in 2020. I would expect about 40,000 of those miles to be in Y and 10,000 to be in J. I'll fly about 60 segments across 20 tickets.

(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?

Reply: Economy with the occasional cheap J/F ticket internationally.

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?

Reply: I can choose my airlines. I can book J for work on flights over 2.5 hours; shorter must be in economy. I never fly internationally for work. Domestic, I can purchase J but typically purchase Y.

(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?

Reply: Right now, I mostly fly DL domestically in a mix of destinations. I fly a lot from DCA around the East Coast, which is why AA has become more interesting to me. Many of the destinations I want to fly from DCA are better served by AA than DL, which is why I'm considering making a change.

Internationally, I fly whatever award I can grab or whatever is cheapest with a lie-flat seat.

(6) What is your home airport?

DCA, with the occasional flight out of IAD. There's a chance I could end up closer to BWI by the winter of 2020.

(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?

I don't have any OW status. In the past, I've held AB Gold from a status match and AA Plat from a Hyatt offer. Right now, I have about 90K BA miles and 70K QF miles.

(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?

I do like the idea of earning EK awards, although that would limit me to JAL. I like B6, although that's obviously not part of the program and perhaps irrelevant to the question at hand. I do prefer DL to AA, although AA's route dominance in DCA makes it more likely I have to consider AA. I prefer AA metal slightly to BA over the Atlantic, although I haven't had the opportunity to fly in preferred BA seats without status. I have only flown Iberia in inter-EU J and quite liked ending up in a weird cushy recliner as opposed to traditional EU J. I've only flown AY on the 350 from LHR-HEL and liked it.

I'm very fond of CX but don't see myself traveling to southeast Asia very frequently in the years to come.