SAN based wifi junkie -which FFP?
 

Curious which airline and which airline FFP program would be best for me? I'm a wifi junkie and love being able to work and fly at the same time. Huge factor for me, so I've chosen DL for many flights, but have found Skypesos to be a joke when looking to redeem ANYTHING. I love Jetblue but limited city pairs and find UA E+ to be great and earning MP to be very solid, but I have no status.

Why don't you try AA of of SAN or even better LAX

You haven't said which routes you fly on, so it's difficult to give specific recommendations. AS has GoGo WiFi on about 70% or its fleet and serves SAN.
http://www.alaskaair.com/as/www2/fli...light-Wifi.asp

Good point.

Well, had a well-documented emergency landing on AA at JFK post 9/11 by about a year. smoke in plane, screaming, the works, so naturally, haven't flown AA since.

AS is out as I rarely go to PDX or SEA.

Family lives in ROC/BUF and plenty of friends in PHL/EWR/NYC area, trips to CHI now and then and pretty regular short hops to LAS/RNO/OAK/SFO, etc. Likely make it to MIA/RSW once a year as well.

I've earned the most miles w/ DL but if I wanted to fly to siberia on January on a Wednesday red-eye, they'd still want 50K miles. LOL.

Bumping this. Does AA now have Wifi on entire fleet? Even on Eagle? I didn't think they did.

Definitely not on Eagle and not even on the mainline fleet.

DL, FL and VX have gogo fleet-wide on their mainline aircraft. DL is adding the larger regionals as well.

WN is installing Row44 fleet-wide but they have 500ish planes and it is going to take a couple years to get there.

UA has gogo only on p.s. planes (and one other 752 with Row44 that is randomly out in the network). CO has no wifi today but has committed (again) to deploying the LiveTV solution late this year or early next should it actually become functional.

AA has equipped all Boeing 767-200 aircraft and select MD80 and 737 aircraft with gogo.

AS, as noted above, is rolling out gogo pretty quickly to their fleet.

B6 has nothing but should, same as CO, once the LiveTV solution they own goes into service.

Who did I miss?

Not even close. Information readily available here:

http://www.gogoinflight.com/gogo/cms/airlines.do

Ugh Brutal! I have no issues with DL's service and love the wifi --but their FFp program is a joke as we know it and I'd be earning miles in vain or so I can blow 50,000 miles on a domestic trip as that's all that's available.

Unless I see something else, it appears DL fits me best and maybe AA if I know they have wifi. I really wish UA/CO would add this sooner rather than later.

Gotta go with the new UA with family in EWR/ROC

no wifi though...deal-killer for me.

You don't necessarily have to credit to DL. If you're fine with not getting status on DL, you could credit to AS instead. Then you could redeem AS for AS, or DL or AA, etc.

(AS partners with both DL and AA, so you can choose AS as the FFP even if you'll actually be mostly flying DL or AA, as long as you don't care that you won't be earning status on DL or AA.)

For AA, in theory you could research how often WiFi is available on flights between SAN and DFW, and between SAN and ORD. Unfortunately, one of the planes most likely to have WiFi on AA, the M80, is slowly being phased out, and in general, plane changes from one season to another are common on many routes, so what the WiFi outlook is right now for AA flights out of SAN may not be the same half a year from now.