Originally Posted by Kerstin Ruf
This is an error on your behalf! Nobody forced you to accept the LH conditions. Your are free to choose whatever carrier you feel that suits your travel needs best. If the carrier of your choice participates in more than one FFP, feel free to choose this FFP you value best.
I never heard that any FFP will satisfy travel needs. I suggest you choose eg an alliance, a carrier first and than search for a FFP that offers you values you like best.
The eagerness to fight this constantly ongoing battle seems to sometimes obscure a sound amount of objectivity.
Of course we have good reason to believe that sooner or later STC will be merged with M&M. It is definitly not a misperception that in such a situation M&M will be forced on former STC members. As membership in a FFP is quite an important and long term aspect of somebodies overall travel arrangements (and often a big investment) a merger of programs can be an extremly unwellcome situation.
Furthermore as you never heard that FFP programs satisfy travel needs (or not), hear it now from a very frequent traveller: yes they do (or not). Actually this is their only purpose from a customer perspective. Because a customer gets certain aspects of his/her travel needs satisfied he/she in turn gives loyalty to a certain carrier. Nothing else.