Switching accrual from AA to --? (your recommendations?)
Jan 16, 2006 | 3:30 pm
#1
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Washington, DC
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Switching accrual from AA to --? (your recommendations?)
I am approaching achieving lifetime PLAT status on AA, with 2M miles, and am looking to begin agressively accruing points on another airline. I am most concerned, however, with making that effort, only to have the airline go out of business, or otherwise make this new block of miles worthless (or nearly so).
So, if you were just starting out, what program would you choose, given concerns about loosing miles, and once accrued, the usability of miles globally. If you're kind enough to make a recommendation, please say why...
Thanks!
John
So, if you were just starting out, what program would you choose, given concerns about loosing miles, and once accrued, the usability of miles globally. If you're kind enough to make a recommendation, please say why...
Thanks!
John
Jan 16, 2006 | 4:36 pm
#2
Join Date: Nov 2002
Posts: 920
Originally Posted by JohnHHarrington
I am approaching achieving lifetime PLAT status on AA, with 2M miles, and am looking to begin agressively accruing points on another airline. I am most concerned, however, with making that effort, only to have the airline go out of business, or otherwise make this new block of miles worthless (or nearly so).
So, if you were just starting out, what program would you choose, given concerns about loosing miles, and once accrued, the usability of miles globally. If you're kind enough to make a recommendation, please say why...
Thanks!
John
So, if you were just starting out, what program would you choose, given concerns about loosing miles, and once accrued, the usability of miles globally. If you're kind enough to make a recommendation, please say why...
Thanks!
John
ken in phx
Jan 16, 2006 | 4:39 pm
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Also, if you really do want to switch, you'll have to give us more info about what type of flying you do- domestic, internationally? What's your goal? Another lifetime status, elite status, more miles?
Jan 16, 2006 | 7:49 pm
#4
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Location: Massachusetts, USA; AA 2.996MM & Plat Pro, DL 1MM, GM & Flying Colonel
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I think the priorities in the OP are out of whack. Choose the airline first, based on travel patterns and so on. Then, its FF program is what it is. There are differences among them, but not enough to make me fly an airline that is less appropriate to my needs than another one. The FF program is a means toward an end, not the end in itself.