(1) What is your home airport? CLT, GSO, RDU
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Y
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? I try to use DL for most of my domestic travel since I'm a GM, but there are two or three business trips per year that I'm forced to fly US out of CLT (usually transcon) so I want to bank those miles in a *A program
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? DL GM
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? I'm never going to get status on *A, so the main thing I'm looking for is being able to cash in my miles every three years or so (whenever I manage to accumulate enough) for a domestic award ticket. Essentially, I want the program where it's easiest to get domestic tickets at the low level
(6) Which routes do you fly most often US Domestic
(7) Preferred Airlines As far as *A, don't really have any, although US non-stop out of CLT is convenient
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Am only looking to redeem for pleasure, since I only fly US when work mandates it

Miles & More, or Eurobonus?
 

Hi! I´ve just started to work internationally and will fly business from ARN & CPH to Americas (North, South, Central), India, Middle East.

What would you recommend? EB or M&M? Should i maybe also take into account that LH might buy SAS?

(1) ARN & CPH
(2) C & Z
(3) Approx 150 000 or more
(4) No, just member of Eurobonus and Miles & More
(5) Upgrades and lounges
(6) Transatlantic, to India and to Egypt/Middle East.
(7) Star Alliance
(8) Just business travel, normally in business class, or discounted business class

Please advice!

I would choose LH in your case. LH has several non-stop options from FRA (and MUC) to India and the Americas (and lots of other places). Flying Business class will get you LH status (SEN or HON) quickly. That means, more chances of you getting upgraded to First class, etc.

Should I choose Aegean?
 

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.) SIN
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.) Y
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
Normally, I will do few (2-4) SIN - CGK - SIN trips, normally I will try to do it on LH and SIN - BKK - SIN (normally on TG) for personal travel. Mostly done in Y unless there is some great deal on C.
May travel to some other destination for holiday also SIN-DPS-SIN (on QR or KL mostly)

This year, I will need to do SIN-TPE-SIN may be for the next 9 months. Most likely twice a month for business trip. Most likely I can try to push to fly SQ (although the company policy stated the cheapest fare, but normally we can push for SQ).
So this will be like at least 10-15 SIN-TPE-SIN trips.

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Premier, M&M Senator etc)
Mostly regular member. QR Priviledge Club Burgundy

(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free
lounge access, etc.)
The priority is in the following order:
1. Lounge access
2. Free/Priority upgrade
3. Good redemotion
4. Others

(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)
As mentioned mostly intra-Asia. SIN-CGK-SIN, SIN-BKK-SIN, SIN-DPS-SIN, and SIN-TPE-SIN (for this year) and may be occasionally to Indian subcontinent

(7) Preferred Airlines
SQ, TG

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)
Pleasure - normally trying to get the "best" fare to accomodate the mileage
Work - Y class at the cheapest, but mostly can justify to fly SQ


I have been reading a lot about to get the *A Gold Status on Aegean. But, I think redemption wise may not be so easy for me. My question is once I get the *A Gold Status with Aegean, can I use the priviledge and collect miles on other program say TG ROP?

(1) What is your home airport? RDU
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Economy except Business to Asia
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? Depends, most of my flights are on DL but I put in over 50k on them last year
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? DL Platinum
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? good award redemption rates
(6) Which routes do you fly most often *A would be primarily for intl travel
(7) Preferred Airlines Doesn't matter but USAir has the most flights out of RDU
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Travel for work. DL is preferred carrier unless something is cheaper. My main concern is getting the best bang for redemption. I have an upcoming trip (RDU-YYZ-PVG) on Air Canada. I currently have a Dividend Miles account but the balance is really low. I looked and USAir only gives 125% of miles flown on Air Canada business class. Any help would be appreciated.

I credited all my DL miles to KLM FB last year. Because FB credits 50%/25% for cheap DL tickets, I lost a lot of miles I could have redeemed. So guess I should get some advice :)

(1) What is your home airport? JFK
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy? Cheapest economy. K, U, T...
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 80K last year.
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? KLM Silver
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Dreaming about buying a crazy multi-leg route with miles.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often: Every month JFK-SFO, twice a year JFK-HEL-IST-JFK.
(7) Preferred Airlines: DL is usually cheaper
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Freelance work, pay for the tickets myself, thus getting the cheap ones :)


Depending on this I will choose with whom I'll fly this year. Torn between DL and UA. Thanks already :)

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.)
LHR and PEK for now
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.)
Z (D or J) for long haul,
Economy for short
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
around 15k-20k?
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Premier, M&M Senator etc)
MM FTL
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access, etc.)
Priorities, Free upgrades...
(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)
Europe-Asia(China)
(7) Preferred Airlines
No particular preference, but quite enjoyed OS for LHR-PEK route via VIE
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)
Pleasure

I am a college student now in the UK and due to graduate this summer, so not sure what will happen after that... I joined MM last summer and managed to get to FTL by the end of last year...

Used to be with CA on their FFP but their availability proved to be rather...let's say limited.... Haven't used my miles on MM yet (having about 57000 miles now thanks to the few J flights between the UK and China...) |Reaching *G with MM looks rather impossible now but is there any better use of 2-3 time return J-Class between LHR and PEK miles..?

I have to say MM is much better than CA already, but since a lot of FTers seem to think BD is better, shall I start Diamond club as well or I shall just keep my MM?

P.S. There is a possibility for me to work in the States next year... but just like every other graduates now nothing is certain...

Help is much appreciated :)

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.)

PVG (Shanghai)

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.)

Mostly Y for trips inside China, medium-level economy for trips to Germany.

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)

Between 15-25K on Star Alliance. Additionally, around 20K on MU.

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Premier, M&M Senator etc)

No. Currently have about 30K miles with Miles & More.

(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access, etc.)

1. Lounge access, priority services (to make travelling more comfortable)
2. Free upgrades
3. Redeem miles for free flights

(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)

Mostly China domestic. PVG-SIN and PVG-FRA about 1-3 times per year.

(7) Preferred Airlines

Not much choice in China ;-). CA, MU.

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)

Mostly work, but can influence on choice of airline.


Unfortunately, I have to choose MU for many flights in China, so not that many flights with CA are left. Therefore, I hope to get the most value out of the *A flights. I am a Miles & More member (and use the credit card heavily), but I fear I might not make it to earn the 35K miles needed for FFP. Also, I feel that there is no benefit in using M&M while living in China - redemption of flights is probably as cumbersome with M&M as with any other *A FFP, except the CA Phoenix one. Is that true?

I'm eyeing on the BMI or Aegean FFPs. Would that be a better choice for my situation? Thanks for the help!

based in Australia, any *FFP to recommend?
 

Does any of you would have some experience with a FFP from Australia. I understand that mainly SQ offers credit card option... that would be the 1st choice, but then the earn/burn ratio on Krisflyer is very low...

Any suggestions ?

We have a dedicated thread with FFP recommendations:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/star-...post-here.html

But the main questions will be what you want from a program and what your flying and spending patterns are.

If you fly a lot of paid C or F, why not continue with M&M?

I would do 2 longhaul in c per year. I could continue with m&m but the absence of credit card scheme makes a big difference

I looking for a program that is not BMI or miles and more that will give best value for collecting miles in for business long haul class flights with:
Lufthansa
Air New Zealand
ANA
Singapore
Continental
Air China

I am looking for 200%+ miles and/or good redemption rates.

I may have a demanding itinerary coming up and want to maximize miles.

I originally intended to claim them with Air Canada but then I checked and they only offer 150% in business.

Thanks.

Anyone?

Aeroplan or Krisflyer?
 

(1) What is your home airport? (Melbourne, Australia)
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (discounted economy)
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (>50k)
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (Delta Diamond)
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline)
(6) Which routes do you fly most often (Transpacific)
(7) Preferred Airlines (previously Delta, but now will be Singapore and Air Canada)
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Work. Have some choice of airlines, no choice in class of service.)

I have recently relocated from Montreal, Canada to Melbourne, Australia for work and am about to book my first trip for work and need to have this decided before I do. Unfortunately, loyalty to delta/skyteam does not seem to be a viable option from Melbourne and will likely start using Singapore for my business travel.

Question is, do I join Krisflyer or dust off my old Aeroplan card and work towards elite on that? Which one offers better benefits?

Also, I know Krisflyer does not take challenges, but would aeroplan take a challenge based on my Delta record and offer me status for a year in exchange for my potential business?

Any help or suggestions would be great...

Thanks!

Provided you will still fly AC often enough for the status requirement, it will gives you a better earn/burn ratio. That being said, credit card availability might make the difference. SQ has a credit card scheme in AUS which could more than compensate the less advantageous burn ratio on SQ (Westpac or American Express).

best FF program for MEM?
 

(1) What is your home airport? MEM
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? cheapest available, via Travelocity, etc.
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 15-25K
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? None
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? top priority: Good award redemption rates; next priority: upgrades
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? US Domestic
(7) Preferred Airlines
None
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)
Half work, half pleasure

Thanks for any suggestions!

which *A FF scheme
 

I am now using Miles and More from LH and CSA OK Plus. I think LH has pretty hard elite status conditions and pretty bad earnings.

(1) What is your home airport?
VIE, BTS
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ?
cheapest available
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year?
25-45k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present?
None
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP?
Good mile earnings and redemptions (for this OK Plus is much better than M&M). Possible upgrades.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? European Union
(7) Preferred Airlines
None
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)
Half work, half pleasure, but for work I buy my tickets and can choose everything.

I am starting to think, that LH M&M is not the best option for me. OK+ has worse availability and VIE is mainly *A domain anyway.

I've been thinking recently about joining a *A program due to the fact that, especially in Europe, I'll no doubt be flying here and there from time to time. To be honest, however, I'm not all that much of a frequent flyer at present, but do hope that to change!

1) What is your home airport? (MEL)
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (Economy)
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<20K)
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (No, only Bronze QFF)
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (free lounge access, good award redemption rates, Frequent upgrades on travel)
(6) Which routes do you fly most often (Australia domestic, hope to travel to NZ possibly a few times a year from 2012+)
(7) Preferred Airlines (Emirates, Singapore, European carriers, AirNZ)
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (pleasure)

While I'm more likely to be using AirNZ more often than other *A airlines, I mainly want to join this group because of the large amount of European airlines linked with *A. So, what would you suggest. Should I join a European airline or AirNZ?

Which *A FFP for me?
 

I'm considering a career move that would have me and my family flying back and forth between the Southeastern US and Southeast Asia. Our most common airports would be ATL and BHM on the US side and SIN and CGK on the SE Asia side.

Where should we bank our miles for *A flights? It doesn't necessarily have to be an American based carrier though that would be a plus due to the credit card sign up bonuses.

2 questions:
- Would you be travelling paid Y or C (or F)?
- What would you be wanting to get out of the status you'll earn (lounge access; upgrades; or access to redemption awards to burn the miles (and within redemption are you willing to pay to travel premium classes or you just want a Y seat for little cost?)

The easy answer to your question is usually join the FFP of the airline you'll use the most (guess UA?)

however:
If you fly paid C or F (or even Y with US carriers) you can consider bmi DC while they are still around (at least 2011 is secure).
- low Gold threshold at 38000 miles (2 Y returns would requalify for gold)
- lounge access even in the US (if 2 are Gold in the family that can put 4 of you in the longe)
- low redemption amounts needed, however with fuel surcharges which tend to pile up vs what you can get on US carriers.
- family account, good if you have kids to manage their miles in as a single bucket.

GBM

We would definitely be using paid Y tickets. Given the fact that the flights are so long, the most important thing we're looking for is upgrades. Lounge access would be nice too. And when we use the miles to redeem flights we'll be redeeming C (maybe F) tickets.

The problem with selecting the airline that I fly most is there's not really an airline I fly most. In the past I've flown DL, SQ, MH, and CX. I've never flown the same airline twice, and I would have very little control over which airline we would fly with.

Best Star Alliance program for Indian resident
 

Hi guys - appreciate if you could help me, i'm a bit of a weird flyer... and because I've just moved to India about a year ago, with a new travel schedule, I'm kind of starting from scratch!

(1) What is your home airport? DEL (Delhi)
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Business Class, class D
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? actual flying: 3 RT to the US each year, plus a little more travel around, so around 50,000 miles per year, i think?
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? Right now no status on non-Indian airlines (none are yet part of any alliance)
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? 1) Lounge access, 2) Upgrades on travel, 3) Priority service
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? Usually India-US and back. I like star alliance because between Swiss & LH, I can have a 1-connection anywhere, and there's direct on CO for NYC.
(7) Preferred Airlines: outside of Indian airlines, LH, LX i suppose
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?) Mix, but I can usually choose by airlines, usually fly business

So if you can't control which airline you fly, how is attaining status (and planning your travel accordingly) that will allow you upgrades anything close to remotely possible? You're basically at the mercy of the luck of the draw, right?

For that matter, upgrades that are useful for longhaul are only going to show up if you fly a LOT within *A- 100,000 miles (and a lot of deep-discount Y fares by non-US carriers like LH or SQ won't help with those as much as UA's will- often those deep discount fares on a non-US carrier only credit at 50%, or even 0%). Do you project that you will be doing that much flying?

I'd probably be looking at programs that were most favorable in terms of mileage accumulation (credit card, RDM bonuses) first and foremost, because that's really the only thing you're likely to get out of the deal if you have no ability to preferentially choose a carrier to maximize status- large piles of miles that you can redeem to fly in something other than Y. That probably means that your choices are US and CO/UA, realistically. (The problem with BMI DC is that if it's assimilated into the LH Borg collective after 2011... well, LH M&M would be a terrible program for you. High award costs, fuel surcharges, high mileage thresholds to gain status unless you fly a lot, not much love for deep discount Y. The only upside I can think of to M&M is that if you were willing to pay a significant mileage premium, you'd have access to SQ award inventory nobody else in *A has, outside of SQ KF members, which would be handy flying out of SIN/CGK.)

Yeah, I guess I do need a program that favors accumulation. Looks like I need to choose between US, CO, and UA.

If your concern is INTL upgrades, US is out since they don't fly to Asia, *A upgrade program requires Y/B fare which you might as well paid for discount Z ticket. CO is merging with UA so basically down to UA.

Your choice seems pretty simple to me :D

Seriously, sign up both CO and UA, then sign up each of their credit card and get their sign up bonus. At the end of the year, both programs will merge so you get twice the sign up bonus.

One redeeming quality with US is they have some ridiculous miles purchase promotions which you can purchase enough miles for a biz award ticket for < $2000. Don't know how long this party will last though.

Since you'll be flying in Y until you have the upgrades, having status on UA offers the additional benefit of E+ when you fly on UA metal. You cannot get the free bump to E+ even if you are Star Gold on any other airline.

All the more reason to focus your *A miles on UA.

(1) What is your home airport? LHR, PEK or YYZ -- I go to school in LHR, family is in YYZ, bf in PEK!
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? discounted Y
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 30-60k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? *A silver
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? good award redemption rates, lounge access, maybe upgrades
(6) Which routes do you fly most often LHR-PEK, or LHR - HKG, HKG/PEK - yyz, YYZ-LHR
(7) Preferred Airlines -- none right now
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? for pleasure...

In this case you can't strategize too much. The best strategy would be (1) become familiar with all three major alliances, (2) join one airline in each alliance, and (3) credit your miles to this airline whenever you fly.

For example, let us say you are flying CX. You look it up and find that it is a member of OneWorld alliance. You have previously selected AA as your frequent flyer program in OneWorld. So you give your AA ff number to CX.

That's some great advice. I was thinking banking with AA for OneWorld since they allow lifetime status, DL for SkyTeam since I have about 50K banked with them already, and maybe UA/CO for *A.

(1) What is your home airport? IAD.
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy? Discount Y.
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? 25k-50k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? UA PremierExecutive, 1P.
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access.
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? Mostly transatlantic (last year).
(7) Preferred Airlines. None.
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? Pleasure mostly.

I'm just wondering if I should stay at UA or move to OZ program where *G valid for longer terms or switch to AC where SQ redemption are possible. Or, start with OneWorld.

Funny you should ask, I'm sitting at IAD RCC

If you switch, you can kiss away what you say is most important, which would be "frequent" upgrades. I wouldnt change programs if you want any shot at upgrades. Cheap lounge access would = joining AEGEAN since they have the lowest gold requirements of any *A and you can use USA based RCC's when flying domestic economy. Many people will split their plans. Put enough into something like AEGEAN for domestic coach lounge access and then pile the rest of the miles to you MP program. Dont know if there's much to improve on if you want upgrade ability. As they say, YMMV.

Thanks for the quick reply! :) I don't fly US domestic routs often so RCC access isn't really make me excited. Also, as a UA 1P, I only get upgrades while flying domestically so I'm not really taking advantage of that either. But, I do would like to have an upgrades when flying internationally. Wondering if there are any programs that gives you frequent upgrades on TATL or TPAC for someone who fly 25k-50k miles a year. Also, that program has to have a no star net blocking (even though I haven't really had bad experiences with star blocking for my last two redemptions) when it comes to award flights in premium cabins? I don't even know there's such program tho.

My wife and I will retire in June and begin working in a Kenya orphanage this fall. We will be flying to and from Kenya once a year for as many years (goal is 25) as possible. We are very inexperiences in the frequent flyer world, and would like to stretch our mission dollars as far as possible. Thanks for any help you can give us.

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.)
Pdx.
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.)
Coach.
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
18k per person.
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Premier, M&M Senator etc)
No.
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access, etc.)
Legroom, legroom, legroom, however I can get it (I'm 6-7).
(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)
Pdx to Nairobi for two every year. Also, we must fly out of the East Africa Union and back to Kenya once every year. It could be South Africa, Europe, etc..
(7) Preferred Airlines
None. Whoever's got the most legroom!
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)
Missions work.

Switching from Delta to ... ???
 

(1) What is your home airport? WAS (IAD/DCA/BWI), currently

(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? Cheap, back of the bus

(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? HIGHLY variable 18K is the minimum as I always go to Asia once a year but after that it is "as needed".

(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? None

(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? good award redemption rates AND AVAILABILITY

(6) Which routes do you fly most often Transpacific

(7) Preferred Airlines Not Delta. Other than that, anythng as long as it is safe and on time

(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?) I travel for both work and pleasure. For work I have to fly whatever the TA books, for personal travel I can choose.

I occasionally travel in the USA for work but that is not frequent. I don't travel to Europe as I have no interest there yet. I travel to Asia at least once a year.

With that kind of mileage, you're best off trying A3. You won't get extra legroom, but you'll get star silver (maybe star gold) status, which tends to get you better service, and the occasional upgrade.

(1) What is your home airport? (SFO, LAX, MCO, etc.)
OTP (Bucharest, Romania)
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? (C, F, Y, etc.)
Always Y (charity projects)
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? (<25K, 25k-50k, >50k)
25-50k
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? What is it? (UA Premier, M&M Senator etc)
CO Silver (narrowly missed Gold), FB still showing up as Platinum (last year's status not updated yet - based on mileage flown last year I should get Silver but hopefully they'll do a soft downgrade to Gold)
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? (Frequent upgrades on travel, priority services when flying the airline, good award redemption rates, free lounge access, etc.)
Er.. all :) in order of preference: free lounge access, upgrades, good award availability and (as a special) extra baggage allowance on transatlantic flights (US)
(6) Which routes do you fly most often (US Domestic, Transpacific etc)
OTP to US (DEN) and Africa (eg KGL,MPM,LLW,ACC,DAR)
(7) Preferred Airlines
Anything, really, whatever gives more benefits at (5).
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? (Can you chooose your airlines, class of service?)
Work. Can only do coach but have some flexibility when choosing the fare (as long as it stays under $2k/trip).

Since most of my trips were to Africa I used to fly ST because of the great connections in "lovely" NBO (been plat with AF/KL for a few years until the dreaded April 1st). I switched to CO when they left ST and am now happy with them, given the good connections to DEN and the use of JNB when going to Africa (which also works better for miles).

Am wondering though if there's a better choice, particularly for achieving/retaining *A Gold (for less than 50k). I was considering TK but after reading some reviews I'm seriously doubting this would be a good choice, after also going through my own nightmare with them last year (IST and CAI).

Since I reside in Eastern Europe I'm also considering connecting through the Middle East, if there are any decent options (like DXB).

Any help please?

(1) JKT
(2) Regularly F, Occasionally J
(3) 25k - 50k
(4) Singapore Airlines PPS Club
(5) Frequent Upgrades, Good Award Redemption Rates
(6) Transpacific and Within Asia
(7) Singapore Airlines, United Airlines, Lufthansa
(8) Pleasure

FFP advise needed
 

1) What is your home airport? SIN, Singapore
(2) What types of fares do you usually buy ? full Y
(3) How many miles do you usually fly each year? depends on assignment from 10 to 25K
(4) Do you have any kind of status at present? No
(5) What is most important to you in a FFP? redemption and status
(6) Which routes do you fly most often? Asia, SE asia and australia
(7) Preferred Airlines
(8) Do you travel for work or pleasure? work

Krisflyer is the last option as points expire in three years

(1) DUB
(2) Y, except on very rare occasions where I go J/C
(3) 25k - 50k
(4) No.
(5) Redemption and upgrades.
(6) DUB - NYC (JFK or EWR); DUB - LHR - SFO
(7) None.
(8) Work; can choose airlines and COS, but limited budget.

I should add that I'll be making around 50k miles in the coming two months in *A, so I'm looking for which program to join to take advantage of this. It might be hard to maintain this sort of mileage in future years, though, as I usually do between 25k and 50k.