Originally Posted by bschaff1

So it is looking like I am going to hit United 1K status this year and really don't want to go too much over 100,000 miles on UAL so I am looking to pick up an alternative carrier. Currently, I have 3,000 EQM on American and nothing besides that to date on any other carriers except what will amount to about 74,000 EQM on united by the end of March. In general, what is another good carrier to pick up considering I am based in Chicago at ORD & MDW. I want to do about 50k on my new carrier this year and about 50k on both United and my new carrier next year. 95% of the time I fly for the MR purposes just because I like flying on Saturdays for the fun of it. Something about catching the 6:00 AM ORD-LAX flight on a Saturday morning and want to find a second carrier to share the wealth on. So what is everybody's opinions for a secondary carrier.