I have (and have renewed until 2014!) my *LH silver, but have come to realise that I will pretty much never reach the gold status on there as I don't travel enough within a calendar year! Most of my flights are on AC, but a few on United and Continental.

I have looked on here and saw that the Agean is the best/fastest way to get * Gold status but before I book my next flight with my new Agean FF, can anyone tell me 1) if i can still claim my baggage allowance without having to change the FF number on the booking 2) does Agean calculate miles the same way as other *A members? 3) is it really worth it starting from scratch, is there another way of accumulating status miles within Miles and More?

Preface; I have few journeys to make next year (LGA-LHR), (LHR-YOW-YXE), (LHR-YOW) and (LHR-YYZ-DCA-LHR) with the possibility of another (LHR-WAS-MEX)

Welcome to FT sunshine_yellow. I'm sure you'll get some good advice on this forum.

Welcome to FT!
Aegean looks good at first, but if you look at the way they credit low booking classes, in many cases it's 1/2 of the miles you'd get with UA, CO or AC. Check those booking classes.

Thanks for that Palal, I would be better off going for UA, CO ro AC's FFs then?

Cheers

I'd say go with United/CO as they're in the process of merging and you'll be able to get E+ where the have it (for now). What's your goal...lounges, checked bags free, award travel, upgrades?

Cheers johndeere19,

Lounges and upgrades really, I tend to travel for work overseas and would like to be able to get some work done and relax before my long hauls.