Originally Posted by RoarAhead
I have been AC Elite for many years but am LON based and never fly AC. Thus I have stuck with them mostly for the easy *G and lounge access. I typically fly around 50K butt-in-seat miles a year, mostly discounted economy to China/Hong Kong.
I statusmatched from KLM to DC so am gold with them. A month later they changed the program and made it worse then what I already had with KLM and FB. Have been checing in to AC and Aeroplan since then and last week made the leap. I'll be using my DC gold card and the *G status for the lounge access and all and collect my miles on AC.
I'm UK based as well. Normally fly out of BRS but will from now on fly from LHR.
I never go to Asia but often go to Skandinavia, Germany and North America. I have 4 UG vouchers for BMI if you want them. I am sure I could make use of your vouchers from AC. :-)
Still, if I were you, I'd stick with AC. DC won't give you status n flights alone as AC do so what would happen if thos 50k miles end up being 12.5 if you are in the wrong booking class? Even if you have enough flights to make you elite on AC it won't help on DC.
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