Originally Posted by
CX HK
To all those who achieved lifetime on BA EC: I was wondering if anyone considered AY+ for lifetime, and why they decided against it? AY+ looks attractive to me because there is no need for the 2 or 4 BA segments in order to move up status tiers; as someone who flies a lot of CX, this means I could achieve up to OWE without having to fly AY.
But I'm sure this is pretty well known knowledge, wonder why everyone decided to stick with BA for the lifetime chase?
I don't think any OW flyers would consider this unless they were at the beginning of their flying 'career': by the time anyone on a OW FF programme moves to HK, they would have already racked up significant mileage on their relevant programme. For example by the time I asked for this forum's advice back in 2016 I was already on around 20k out of the required 35k BAEC tier points for lifetime OWE, so it would have made no sense to restart anywhere else.
It would be different if you moved to HK on another alliance (eg. as a Delta flier from the US, or Lufthansa flier from Europe etc) and could pick any OW programme from scratch, in which case Finnair might make sense.