Originally Posted by
graraps
LH HON is great, of course, but it is only any good for people who fly very often, long-haul, in premium classes and on a limited number of LH partners (HON accrual and benefits are not across *A). Therefore a very limited target demographic.
My FFP is obviously better than yours

, and I'll clearly nominate OK+ here.
200% miles for business, segment qualification in addition to the mileage one (great if you're a short-haul flyer), lounge access+guest, free systemwide upgrades (though the very cheapest fare class is excluded), extra luggage allowances, 24-hour multilingual call centre, 1000 mile minimum for transborder flights, and visible efforts from personnel to make your travel experience that little bit better.
Only real disadvantages are the absence of an award availability checker/booking tool and the way COS bonus is calculated (before Elite bonus is factored in- e.g. 1000 miles flight in C, 50% elite bonus and 100% COS bonus only nets you a total of 2500 award miles). Oh, and non-flying earning potential is rather poor unless you live in the Czech Republic; but that's a decent trade-off for good award availability!
I find LH HON benefits to be amazing too.
And now, one gets to be limoed from the plane to terminal if the plane is parked at the remote gate (it will be very useful in FRA).
The problem I have with non AF/KL & KE SkyTeam plan is that I cannot redeem miles for F travel on SkyTeam. Of course I could use DL miles for SQ F, but I can always redeem my UA miles for that