To which alliance(s) to commit my points
Sep 9, 2013 | 2:13 am
#1
Original Poster
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: AY Platinum (OWE)
Posts: 95
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
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
Sep 9, 2013 | 7:12 am
#2
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Home Airports: CAE/CLT
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, National Executive
Posts: 5,460
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.
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.