Let me try this out, I've always been confused about which program to go for!

(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
(upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, extra baggage allowance, good award redemption rates, better award access, free - discounted lounge access, etc.)
Reply: Upgrades and Priority Services


(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
(<25000, 25000-50000, >50000 miles - <25, 25-50, >50 flights?)
Reply: Usually <25000, mostly Economy


(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
(First, Business, Premium economy, Economy, cheapest)
Reply: Economy

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Usually yes, although its Economy most if not all times. I travel for both work and pleasure.


(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
(US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: Mainly Europe - between UK to Spain, and UK to Rest of Europe. Occasionally UK to Asia - China/India


(6) What is your home airport?
(SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)
Reply: Mainly LHR/LGW as starting points, but consider MAD too.

(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
(AA Executive Platinum, QF Gold, UA 1K, LAN Comodoro, etc)
Reply: Not really, BA is my main one.


(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Reply: BA, Iberia, Etihad, Norwegian Airlines, Lufthansa

Could you help me decide which FFP of Oneworld to choose?

(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Reply: good award redemption rates, long/no miles expiration
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
Reply: In Oneworld only about 1-2 return flights, 1-3 segments
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Reply: Economy
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Both. Can say preference but cannot choose.
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
Reply: Mainly EU, sometime U.S.
(6) What is your home airport?
Reply:Prague - PRG
(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
Reply: Delta SkyMiles, Lufthansa Miles&More; but none in OW
(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Reply: From OW mainly Iberia and BA

Thanks!!

Hi all, would appreciate some help selecting a Oneworld FFP.

(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Reply:Good mileage redemption rates

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
Reply: 15-50, depending on the year

(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Reply: Economy

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Mostly pleasure. When I do travel for work I can choose airline, not class of service

(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
Reply: Air Canada is my main airline, still deciding on Oneworld flights. Canada domestic, transpacific and transatlantic

(6) What is your home airport?
Reply:YVR

(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
Reply: Aeroplan: 150,000, AAdvantage: 16,000, LATAM Pass: 25,000, AMEX MR: 125,000

(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Reply: Air Canada (no preferred Oneworld airline at the moment)

As you can see I have a small amount of miles in a couple of different OW FFPs. Trying to figure out what to use going forward. I'm considering mostly AAdvantage and Avios because of my Amex MR points. I would like to capitalize on a few "mini-RTW" trips but not necessarily in J class - Y would be fine. Seems like this would be good for AAdvantage. However, I will also be wanting to do some short trips around Europe which favours Avios. Struggling on picking one, or maybe I should gradually build up both of them?

Which one world airlines to sign up for
 

Hi I am a member of the Qmiles program with Qatar airways however, dont travel to the middle eat and am now based in Singapore and travel around Asia Pacific and I need some help in which one world frequent flyer program to join.

Questions
For members asking for information, to help people to assist you, can you please provide:
(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, extra baggage allowance, good award redemption rates, better award access, free - discounted lounge access, etc
Reply:
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
50000 miles 25-50,
Reply:
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
Economy, cheapest
Reply:
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Work mostly and 3-4 trips for pleasure
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
Malaysian air and occasionally Qantas
Reply:
(6) What is your home airport?
Singapore SIN
Reply:
(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
Not on one worls - Am Star alliance gold but Malaysian air is on One World
Reply:
(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Reply: Malaysia air and Qantas

Qatar QR is a member of the Oneworld alliance. www.oneworld.com
The airline you fly and the airline ffp you credit those flights to does not need to be the same.
The Qantas ffp is very poor

I thought I had a good thing going with AA/OW, but with AA making a ton of bad changes at my level/spend it's time to consider other OW programs!

(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Reply: Priority services, upgrades, free/discounted lounge access. Award availability nice to have.

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
(<25000, 25000-50000, >50000 miles - <25, 25-50, >50 flights?)
Reply: Right around 50,000 miles and right around 25 sectors.

(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
(First, Business, Premium economy, Economy, cheapest)
Reply: Economy/cheapest (work policy)

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Reply: Work and pleasure.
Work: International, economy. Choice restricted by availability of routes (see home airport), but in principle I can choose. (Example: I can choose to fly JL metal as AA codeshare). Work has agreement with AA, so OW is preferred.
Pleasure: Can choose airlines but I mainly fly AA on US domestic routes. Looking to fly award in J to Japan this year.

(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
(US Domestic, Transpacific, Kangaroo, in Asia etc)
Reply: SAN-LHR on BA, SAN-NRT on JL, SAN-DFW on AA

(6) What is your home airport?
(SFO, SCL, London LHR, HKG, Singapore SIN etc.)
Reply: SAN, with hometown DFW also an option.

(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
(AA Executive Platinum, QF Gold, UA 1K, LAN Comodoro, etc)
Reply: AA PLT, 250,000 miles

(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
Reply: Most commonly fly AA, prefer JL (but that only applies to flights to Japan)

blakerson Welcome to FT

AA is the only Oneworld airline is USA.
You will not your most of your objectives with another OW ffp and flying AA. Especially upgrades.

Look here in the AS forum http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/alask...ng-switch.html

The grass in not greener on the other side

Thanks for the welcome and the advice! :)

Half Way Between Chicago and Detroit
 

After the changes to AA, I'm not sure if I should stay or move to a different FFP. I'm half way between Detroit and Chicago - so here's the question - AA, BA, or...AS?

Questions

(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
(upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, extra baggage allowance, good award redemption rates, better award access, free - discounted lounge access, etc.)

Reply (In this order):Redemption rates, award access, lounge, then upgrades
(Currently have the AA Exec card and Plat AmEx so a wide array of lounges are covered, not that I wouldn't mind losing one of fees if possible).

(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
(<25000, 25000-50000, >50000 miles - <25, 25-50, >50 flights?)

Reply

Domestic Economy 5-10 trips/year
Int'l Prem Economy 2 trips/year (Europe)
Int'l Biz 2 trips/year
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?

(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?

Reply: Usually economy for domestic, Prem Econ for work, and Biz for leisure.

(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?

Reply: Currently AA and BA. AA mostly domestic, BA mostly Int'l using Chase and AARP.

(6) What is your home airport?

Reply: ORD, DTW (GRR/SBN)

(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
(AA Executive Platinum, QF Gold, UA 1K, LAN Comodoro, etc)

Reply:AA Plat

(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?

Reply Most commonly AA, BA, I used to fly AZ/AF Prem Econ when I was flying with DL. I wouldn't mind access to EI's biz product and mile accrual since it's usually cheaper.

I should note, I have 2 trips in Club Europe coming up that could net me near Gold status on BA. However, not sure about the Avios redemption rate.

The grass in not always greener on the other side

You will not get most of your objectives with another OW ffp and mainly flying AA. Especially BA redemption rates and the BA award surcharge
Earn to burn is what matters. BA awards are zone-segment based.
http://www.awardace.com/redemptions/c32c44b531/ORD-LHR
At AA saver rates award availability is nominally the same for all OW airlines, but is does seem to vary a little.

Look here in the AS forum for the thread especially for AA refugees http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/alask...ng-switch.html

Yeah, the BA award chart is what makes me queasy. Even with the Chase buy-one-get-one redemption certificate it's still a struggle (I'd like to access partner F once and a while). Thanks for the help!

Benefits for crediting to BAEC instead of AAdvantage:
- lounge access
- more miles, eventhough they're worth less

PQD is something we frequent flyers need to say no to.

Hi all,

I started crediting A3 out of college, but in the past few years, have made *G requal quickly enough that I was looking to find a second program. With the amazing ex-MXP I and R fares on QR, aiming for Sapphire on a OW program makes most sense. I think I've decided, but second opinions are always reassuring!

BAEC seems most generous - crediting a single MXP - DOH - CMB in I / R would net 560 TP out of 600 TP required for silver. However... I'd prefer not to have a min. sector requirement with BA. I'm unlikely to use BA for any long haul routes, and I much prefer the LX offering from ZRH to LHR. But if no other program would be as generous for my flying patterns, then I'll suffer ;)

The carriers that require a min. number of segments on that carrier are out as I'd likely not fly them (exceptions: Air Berlin, AA but neither have that requirement and look less generous than BAEC).

Questions
For members asking for information, to help people to assist you, can you please provide:
(1) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Lounge, priority services, quite some way behind: upgrades / redemptions
(2) How many miles do you usually fly each year & in what class? How many flights/sectors?
~50-70,000 miles; 25-30 sectors
(3) What types of fares do you usually buy?
The cheapest; unless a < EUR 2k J fare opens up on a long haul route
(4) Can you choose your airlines and/or class of service? Do you travel for work and/or pleasure?
Yes, and leisure travel only.
(5) Which routes and airlines do you fly most often?
Typically 5 long haul RT per year - usually 2-3 trips Caribbean or Central / South America (UA, LH, LX) ; 2-3 trips SE Asia (SQ, TK). Up to 10 intra-Europe SH (LH, LX, A3 and TK). I want to have the flexibility to choose AA/BA (Y or J depending on fare) and QR (J) though. I can also see myself using CX Y and UL J in the next couple of years.
(6) What is your home airport?
ZRH
(7) Do you have FFP status of any kind in OW or other airline? What is it? Do you have any miles banked in a FFP?
No status on BA but some 90k Avios
(8) Preferred Airlines? Most common Airlines flown on?
I currently don't fly OW, but going forward, I'm more likely to fly AA and QR. Making BA segments isn't too much of a challenge, however.

AA definitely has a 4 segment for status rule: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...solidated.html
BA has a 2/4 segment rule. More information on this in the BA forum.

I should have clarified - there isn't a 4 flight segment from 2017 for AA, but lack of clarity around the conversion to EQD from partners puts me off.