Originally Posted by
bdkorn
Based on what I read I should use Asiana for quick qualification and I really like the 2 year expire as my travel can be quite varied both in quantity and location. However, it sounds like they will be leaving *A at some point but I have no idea what that would mean.
(1) What is your home airport? PHX
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Y - US, Y+ - EU and C - Asia
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k) >50k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? was *A Gold through TK for a long time
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Lounge is top priority, some kind of reasonable flight redemption would be nice.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often: Mostly US Domestic but expecting several trips to Japan and at least one to EU this year.
(7) Preferred Airlines: UA but I’m open to others
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Mostly work hence the split of FC
TIA
- Brian
If you fly more than 50k BIS and some of that is Y+ to Europe and J to Asia this should be straightforward to get SAG status. OZ isn’t any good for you - once they leave *A your status may still be valid for 2 years, but then it will be ST status. You say you fly UA and with a J-class trip to Asia you are probably pretty close to UA gold anyway and get probably get up to Platinum w/o too much trouble. Now, that won’t give you domestic lounge access, if that is what you are looking for. A3 is not bad, but you need A3 segments and they can be hard to get unless you are flying into that region a lot. Why not go back to TK? Not a difficult status to get. Doesn’t earn well on UA J, but quite decent in UA Y, not terrible in PY. You could fly AC to Asia - that earns o.k. with TK