Originally Posted by
skeptic35
(1) What is your home airport? ZRH
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Y in Europe, C long haul
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 25k-50k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? M&M SEN exp. 2/25
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? free lounge access, priority services at airports
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? 10-20 times a year within the EU, 1-2 times a year to US, 1-2 times a year to Asia
(7) Preferred Airlines LX
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? 50-50. Y in EU and C long haul, for both work and pleasure
I want to move away from M&M due to their program reboot, I was thinking EuroBonus but SAS is leaving *A. Asiana might be leaving *A soon too. Not sure what to do.
Thanks!
I'll depend on your flights and booking classes. P-class to the US/Asia will be a different story compared to C-class. Also, intra Europe, is that dirt cheap (e.g. K-class) or more mid-range like H-class? Assuming you want to continue flying (mostly) LX you'll have to check earning tables with the other programs. 10-20 (return?) Eco within the EU assuming it is not the (S)LKT fare group will work IMO with many programs. If you have a lot of (S)LKT fares it can get trickier.
Aegean needs 4 min segments on them, else their requirements are very low; however, LTK does not earn! If you can fly your USA flight on United and that ticket is not terribly cheap, you might be able to quickly get UA*G. UA will also give 50% Elite bonus on LX flights and redemption on s/h Swiss intra-Europe can be a good value w/ UA and no YQ nonsense.
A third one to look into is Turkish. They have weird earning tables for Swiss, so check very carefully! You can earn status for 2 years like it used to be the case with M&M, if that is attractive to you. Run your Asia and USA flight via IST and you should be able to earn status with them very quickly.