Comparisons of OneWorld, SkyTeam, *A Silver level programs
 

I will be starting afresh after a year of no status on any airline (sacrilege on these boards!).

1. My travel patterns are mostly domestic (leisure) with about one International in a year (work).
2. I fly coach on domestic.
3. I fly Business on International.
4. I am based in the Bay Area (CA).
5. International mostly to BLR (via FRA or SIN) or SIN.
6. Domestic destinations are DTW, BOS

With this travel pattern, the best i can make is Silver (2p) or Gold (1p) on any airline's FF program.

Since I travel SQ international, I have been considering switching to UA for domestic, thereby stayign within the *A family.

I have been looking at Blondebomber's *A comparison chart. Even that doesn't reach down to the lowly levels of a Silver.

Questions:
1. is there a similar comparison for OneWorld and SkyTeam carriers?
2. is there a comparison between silver levels on carriers in *A, OneWorld and SkyTeam?

Any other opinions of a good Silver level program would be most welcome.

Note 1: I did search, but couldn't dig up anything.
Note 2: Moderator: If this does not belong in the UA forum, please feel free to move it - to where? *A Forum?

If you fly enough business or first on SQ to make PPS then that is *Gold status (complete with lounge access when flying UA domestically). Miles can be credited to SQ or other program (suggest UA?).

Take a look on the SQ forum if interested - a heap of information on PPS there.

Kiwi Flyer,
Sadly, I will not have enough flights in business on SQ to make PPS. I know 50k miles should get me to PPS, having been KF Gold a few years ago (before I found FT).

My thought process was given that my annual trip to BLR/SIN, the only international carriers that fly to BLR are TG, SQ, LH - all three in the *A. Since the rest of my flights are domestic, UA's 2P seemed a good bet.

BTW, congratulations on becoming the moderator on the SQ Forum.
legionnaire.

Yeah one trip to BLR probably not enough (unless fairly crazy routing) by itself. Although as part or RTW with side-trips (on SQ) may just be able to pick up 25 PPS sectors per year.

A key difference for Silvers is that CO and NW give a 50% mileage bonus for Silvers, vs. the traditional 25%. Of course SkyTeam is weaker in Asia than Star, so getting to India may be more of a challenge with ST.

FWIW, BA is starting LHR-BLR service.

But you can't earn AA miles on most BA US-UK flights. The same is for BA miles too.

BA/AA looked promising. but not now.
 

I like AA and till this post, i was toying with AA's silver level vs UA's 2p. If I can't earn AA miles on BA US-UK-Asia flights, that's not much use.