All,

Tried to search, but didn't come up with anything coherent, so I try to ask...not sure if this is the right place, if not, mods please feel free to move the thread.

Due to bad planning, I am finding myself on an Iberia flight next week, intra-european Y. Bad planning since I have exclusively been feeding my flights into SAS Eurobonus (when *A) and AF/FlyingBlue (when SkyWorld) and pretty much nowhere else -- I do not fly enough to maintain meaningful status on three alliances at once.

The question, obviously, is where to stick the Iberia-miles? Neither SK/EB nor FlyingBlue/AF have, according to their www-sites, milage-earning-opportunities from Iberia.

I could simply forfeit earning miles since, well, it's a short flight and won't yield much.....but as FTer, it just seems "plain wrong" to not earn miles on a flight, and I am not sure if forfeiting earning miles would not cause my FT account to be revoked

So, I could open an Iberia, or any oneworld, ff account, and stick the miles there. The question is, then, which? Preferably, it should be one where:

• miles do not expire, or expire only after very very long time;
• miles are easily transferable to something else, say, a hotel chain (any major would do);

Any suggestions as to what is the most advantageous?