Originally Posted by phillipas
More seriously, you really need to let us know what flights you will be taking and what fare bucket they are booked into. And when you say you'll use OW a bit in the future, how much and where?
Actually, I don't know that myself.
I realize that the program preferences depends on the travel habits, but my point was, I'm not really into flying OW if I don't have to (not because I think OW is bad or anything, but *A has already its claws on me...
). So 9 out of 10 flights I cover with *A and Sky, but there are that occational 10th time I have to take OW flights because of price or time beyond my control. And mostly, I pay for my trips myself so we are talking about economy fares here...
Obviously, I'm not aiming for a tier status here. But rephrasing my question, which OW frequent flyer program is least bad for the in fact not so frequent OW flyer? Again, I know there might not be a clear answer to this, but based on some opinions here, I'm hoping to get a free flight in 5 years instead of 10, if you know what I mean. And I expect to travel quite globally the comming years (ok, mostly in Europe and North America).
And of course, it's also a matter of which program has a good coverage, so that I accidentaly don't let the miles expire or something just because I'm stationed somewhere out of its reach...