Originally Posted by
sf912002
I am based in BLR and I do about 4 business trips and 1 personal trip to LAX a year. All of them in business class. I do some regional travel within Asia, both West Asia and South East Asia.
That should easily be 100K+ BIS miles; even with four business class trips and a 25% class-of-service bonus you should make it to 100K status miles.
Besides the options you mentioned, you might consider ANA, whose Diamond benefits look pretty good. Like SQ, it's in *A, which has pretty good coverage in most of Asia. And there are few cross-partner restrictions for awards (other than upgrade awards) within *A.