Because of a job I will be starting soon, I will be flying a-lot. Sometimes 3 times a day. This will include short and long-haul flights in Asia, Americas, Europe and the Middle east, rare visits to Africa. I've not flown more than 20 times in my life. I'm new to all this so thank you for taking the time to read.


(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.)
Based in Europe but fly out of different airports constantly

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.)
Economy (I do not get to pick flights of seats)

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
I will end up on about ~200 flights yearly

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

(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.)
No matter the program I will end up at the highest tier so difficulty to reach the highest tier isn't a concern. It'd be fair to just compare highest reward tiers.

In general the most important things for me will be comfort in airports and flight e.g. extra legroom, upgrades, lounge access, priority bag collection and security.

Benefits that decrease my expenditures while abroad will be immensely useful for helping with my savings. (I'm a contractor so free food and drinks will be useful as I cant expense them to a company, the only thing that gets payed for is hotel and travel).

I also really put value in earning miles and membership benefits that extend beyond my job. e.g. miles expire after a longer time, Miles from specific airlines buy better things or I get a travel benefit I can keep in the future (Asiana gives me the ability to get lifetime gold membership) I may not have this job in two years time so if I can get more out of it I will.

Partnerships with hotels will also help as I need to sign up to many hotel loyalty programs too.


(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)
Mainly around Europe to begin with but I will travel globally

(7) Preferred Airlines
No choice in flights

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