hombri Congratulations on you first post on FT (after ~7 years)
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
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As above AA, for AA tickets, is a revenue based ffp. AS is a distance based ffp.
Been reported that AA-AS will introduce a cross airline upgrade system (outside of the OW alliance).
Details slow being released.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...-upgrades.html
But would expect any airline would favor upgrading its own freq flyers ahead of the other guys.
For award travel AS (currently) has a very prescriptive award chart. How that will/may change with AS now in OW alliance is unknown. AS awards can be very good value and the free stopover useful for some. But all ffp award charts have sweet spots. Depends on where you want to go with award flights.
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...advantage-733/
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/alas...eage-plan-442/