Originally Posted by
HotelAspiration
(1) What is your home airport? GSP/AVL
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Main Cabin
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year?(0-5k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? None
(5) What is most important to you in a PFPetc.) FOR me it’s redemption rates at main cabin flexible fare awards.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often US Domestic Airlines Only
(7) Preferred Airlines= Anything but Allegiant, Spirit & Frontier.
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you choose your airlines, class of service?) Pleasure and main cabin.
Since you're posting in the oneworld FFP thread, I assume that you're asking whether it's best to join AA vs. AS, BA, IB, or some other oneworld program. For your situation, I think that you'd get the best bang for the buck joining AAdvantage, since they are the oneworld carrier you will be flying out of AVL/GSP. And with AA, you can get generous credit-card sign-up bonuses from two different issuers: Barclays and Citi.
Even if you weren't asking only about oneworld programs, my recommendation would still be AA. AA often offers very low redemption rates for domestic Coach travel, and you can easily get a lot of miles from the two different credit cards.