Originally Posted by
hornbri
Hi - with AS joining Oneworld I need help choosing which program to make my primary one. I am leaning towards Alaska..
(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Upgrades on travel, reward travel
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
~120k miles a year, when flying domestically economy (40 segments a year) when flying international usually in paid business class (4 RTs a year)
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Mostly economy
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Yes I can choose, most travel is for work
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
US Domestic, AUS-SJC is most frequent route
(6) What is your home airport?
AUS
(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?
AA Platinum Pro
AS MVP Gold
WN A-List
(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Almost all travel is on one of 3 of AA, AS, WN
As AAdvantage and AS MileagePlan would have reciprocal benefits in the future, think about this.
Think about your lifetime miles and lifetime status. In AS MP, when you have 1M miles, you would be AS MVPG for life; AA has a gradual system for lifetime status.
If you have no other factor and if you fly both AS and AA equally, head towards AS as you wouldn't have any spending based requirement.