Hi, I will answer the questions first and then focus on the specifics below.

(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Reply: Upgrades and mileage redeption, lounge is nice as well
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
Reply: 50-60k, mostly business long haul and economy mid and short haul. See below my flights for this year.
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Reply: business for LH and economy for short
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Yes, I travel for pleasure and I choose the airlines.
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
Reply: Based in Europe so travel most to European cities for city breaks, but do at least one or two trips to the US and one to Asia per year.
(6) What is your home airport?
Reply: SOF, BG
(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
Reply: None. I have an upcoming flight with QR that will make me silver on BA but am resistant to do it because will not requalify under the new rules.

I have star alliance gold through TK which I also use a lot.
(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Reply: OW - BA, AA, also EI
SA: TK, LH and OS

Here are the details. I am looking into Alaska and Royal Jordanian. Here are my flights: QR:P:FCO-DOH-MLE-DOH-FCO

QR:P:SOF-DOH-SOF

QR:P DXB-DOH-AUH

BA:I:ORD-JFK

IB:I:JFK-MAD

EI:Y:FCO-DUB-FCO

EI:I DUB-JFK-DUB

Alaska will give me 250% for the FCO-DUB-JFK-DUB-FCO as it was booked on Alaska as a partner flight. according to my calculations, it will reach around 42k miles and will give me Silver for OW.

Here’s the exact calculation:

11466+5672+9729+21698‎ = 48,565



Royal Jordanian is also an option, especially given the fact that it treats QR P class as first class and gives more miles. My calculations show that I will be something like 4-5k miles short.

Details: I don’t care about lounge access in the US and I am usually travelling business so will get there organically. Lounges will serve me in Europe and Asia. This means Alaska will serve me well. As far as I know it also has the best redemption rates. Issue is that my OW flights are usually not booked through them - I use BA, AA and QR for the favourable DUB-USA-MAD fares and QR directly for Asia. Good thing is that EI gets miles with Alaska (and BA, but that is out of the question).

Royal Jordanian has less requirements for keeping status and gives it for two years, but miles are basically unusable and I don’t fly with them at all.

For future bookings, I will probably not use EI as it was good for the current BA system, but given the fact that it is not OW, there is no need to fly them.

So I am torn between RJ and AS. QR is also an option but they give less Qpoints for P fares… and they are somewhat hard to reach. Finnair looks good, but also sounds hard to reach and I don’t fly in that region at all. SOF is mainly Star Alliance, but willing to reposition for good fares. Positioning to the Nordics from SOF is not the greatest…

If anybody else has any ideas…