On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 23:12 -0800, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > I've tried to keep my travel on Star Alliance to go for those obscene mile > numbers rather than have lots of different accounts, plus those flights > seem much more expensive and I'm still a cheap bastard; but maybe sanity > has a cost too.
i don't want to turn silk into flyertalk, but... i'll renew platinum on skyteam by april this year too, and wonder what to do with the rest of the year, and probably consider star alliance and discover again that it's no good for mileage earning fast flights between benelux and the west coast (only the US airlines give you reasonable miles on cheap fares on star, and they have poor connections between europe and the west coast). that said, being in san francisco, dakar and back west to new york in the same week (mid march) is tough to organise in any airline alliance, and i'm reasonably impressed that it's sort-of possible on skyteam. -rishab
