Cathay Pacific

After several Qantas blunders such as one of my favourite flight into Hong Kong being canned, I decided to look elsewhere at alternatives that were One World alliance (to maintain maximum benefits).
Why keep OneWorld? It’s a very large alliance which covers a lot of carriers in North America, and Europe. The only two Asian carriers which are One World Alliance members are JAL and Cathay (also notably the best ones in the world). Definetly an alliance worth keeping around if you do regular North American trips but also do regular Asia trips.
I decided that this year would also be the year which I will start accruing status with Cathay as their lounges are the best, inflight service is generally better (they have a K-​Pop channel on inflight entertainment — WIN), Marco Poio Members get more priority for upgrades, can also earn points on China Eastern/​China Airlines, and can easily transfer points between AMEX and AsiaMiles/​Marco Polo.
May also decide to do North American trips via Cathay too — don’t think it is that inconvenient to do a quick dim sum/​shopping stopover in Hong Kong ;)
Only Downsides that I can see? Their online website could use some work in usability wise. Seems slightly harder to hold a status (rewards pay off a lot better though)