After COVID I lost all my status and I’d like to know best way to fix for *A
 

Based on what I read I should use Asiana for quick qualification and I really like the 2 year expire as my travel can be quite varied both in quantity and location. However, it sounds like they will be leaving *A at some point but I have no idea what that would mean.

(1) What is your home airport? PHX
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Y - US, Y+ - EU and C - Asia
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k) >50k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? was *A Gold through TK for a long time
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Lounge is top priority, some kind of reasonable flight redemption would be nice.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often: Mostly US Domestic but expecting several trips to Japan and at least one to EU this year.
(7) Preferred Airlines: UA but I’m open to others
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Mostly work hence the split of FC

TIA

- Brian

If you fly more than 50k BIS and some of that is Y+ to Europe and J to Asia this should be straightforward to get SAG status. OZ isn’t any good for you - once they leave *A your status may still be valid for 2 years, but then it will be ST status. You say you fly UA and with a J-class trip to Asia you are probably pretty close to UA gold anyway and get probably get up to Platinum w/o too much trouble. Now, that won’t give you domestic lounge access, if that is what you are looking for. A3 is not bad, but you need A3 segments and they can be hard to get unless you are flying into that region a lot. Why not go back to TK? Not a difficult status to get. Doesn’t earn well on UA J, but quite decent in UA Y, not terrible in PY. You could fly AC to Asia - that earns o.k. with TK

Mega Asia trip on Star Alliance - should I collect UA miles or do something else
 

Background - I am currently United Silver Elite. I have a LAX-ICN-BKK-SIN-PVG-CAN-BKK-HYD-BLR-SIN-LAX trip booked on OZ/SQ/CA/TG/SQ. LAX to BKK is Z class and BLR to LAX is J class. Rest are Economy.
Based on the PQP calculator it seems I would get 3256 PQP and 24250 award miles. My question is should I do this or switch to Kris Flyer or Asiana frequent flier account? I have 711 PQP for 2024 on United Airlines. I have a lot of Europe and USA travel pending for 2024.
Thank you all in advance for your help.

Is there anything meaningful in your Asiana or SQ accounts or are your opening new accounts?

Would be new accounts. I do not have anything in either airline program. Have never flown OZ before. Last SQ trip was in 2015.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/star...-here-170.html.

Asiana is leaving star alliance at some point (maybe end of year, maybe next year). With these unknowns (when theyll stop allowing accuracy on other * alliance airlines), probably not asiana

What is important for you in a frequent flyer program?
1. How important is requalifying for UA silver/potentially getting gold or higher?
2. How important is the ability to redeem the miles (at a reasonable cost)?
3. Have you checked how much this would earn with other programs?

My work travel has fluctuated quite a bit especially post Covid. I have been a legacy Continental/United FF member. Because of work travel policies, my accrual gets split between UA/DL/AA. I would like to qualify for some status UA or another Star Alliance partner.
To answer your questions, I would like to get some status preferably Gold because I still have a lot of travel pending. I do redeem miles frequently - typically in Economy to Asia and South Africa. I did check the earning on SQ - award miles were higher but I would only get to Kris Silver not Kris Gold. And all subsequent UA travel in 2024 would need to go towards SQ FF program.

I would start a spreadsheet and compare what sticking with UA looks like vs switching to SQ.

Keep in mind that UA status is usually worth more when flying/redeeming on UA and vice versa.

The one benefit of achieving SQ *G is the use of UA clubs when flying domestically.

1) Home Airport is SFO
2) Will be buying Business Class roundtrip SFO - SIN on Singapore Airlines. But an infrequent flyer
3) <25K annually
4) No current status.
5) Maximizing usage of miles earned for redemption on US domestic economy flights
6) US Domestic
7) For work international, Singapore Airlines. For domestic work or personal, no preference
8) Travel for both work and pleasure

SQ ff miles have a hard expiry. Use them or lose them
UA ff miles do not expire
Many people now get many ff miles from non-flying activity.

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mile...-t-expire.html Open the wiki

Consider AS for SQ business purchases and domestic redemption plans. Might hit Elite status even, depending on on other travel

Hi! I'm a UK based university student looking into which FF programme I should redeem my flights into. I will most likely fly from london to HKG at least once a year, along with flights to europe/US for leisure or internships.

(1) What is your home airport? HKG / london
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy? usually the cheapest fares
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 25k-50k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? N/A
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Points for awards, lounge access
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? London -> HKG -> London
(7) Preferred Airlines – N/A
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? For leisure

If you're flying on BA and CX, OneWorld would be the better option as anything else will have at least 1 connection LHR-HKG. Is there a particular reason you're looking at *A?

Thinking more about *A since it seems (to me at least) that it would be easier to get status on *A programmes when compared to oneworld, and that most of the time the cheaper flights from HKG to london are connecting? I'm really not sure about it though. If I were to go for oneworld programmes which one should I try? Thanks!