To which alliance(s) to commit my points
 

Hi all! I have been lurking the forums a long time and finally decided to register and start a thread as I have a bit of a dilemma in my hands.

So far this year I've been flying *A (mostly LH) and some AY, so at this moment I got ~30k tier points in LH account and ~10k in my AY+. I still have quite a few trips left this year and now I am wondering, how I should allocate my points.

Choices:

1) Sign up for Aegean and get *A gold, rest of the points to LH and get LH FTL also.

2) Split points and get AY+ Silver and LH FTL.

At the moment 2) feels a bit better but I am not sure.

What are your thoughts?

Q/A answers:

What is your home airport?
HEL
What types of fares do you usually buy ?
100% miles economy
How many miles do you usually fly each year?
40k-50k (this year a bit more 70k-80k)
Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it?
Flying Blue Silver
What is most important to you in a FFP?
Priority check-ins etc, Lounge access, Upgrades
Which routes do you fly most often
Mixed
Preferred Airlines
-
Do you travel for work or pleasure?
Mostly work, also some pleasure

Andy

Considering your goals, I don't see the value of spreading you memberships across multiple programs.

If you were flying a lot more I would say otherwise.

To upgrade you are going to need very high status or a bunch of miles, neither of which will be accomplished by flying 25-30k miles/kms a year on 2-3 different carriers. Nor will this get you into lounges, except of course A3.