Planning your Airline Miles for 2012 – Part II
In Part I of this post I went over the process I use and recommend for planning out an year of earning and maximizing Airline…
Airline Miles
Articles related to Airline Miles
Last Call for 2011 – Link your United and Continental Accounts
If you have earned status miles (EQM) in 2011 in both your United and Continental accounts, you need to act fast and link the two…
Planning your Airline Miles for 2012
That gives me some great benefits, such as free unlimited domestic upgrades, Exit row seats when I do not get upgraded, automatic Economy+ for when I don’t get the exit row, free checked bags and most importantly, Star Gold level on Star Alliance, for all my non-United travel. … My Balance: 50,970 – 5,000 = 45,970 Make a list of all other sources that earn you miles and see how many will come in for sure.
Earn United Miles for ‘Checking In’ at Airports
United has joined the bandwagon of going ‘Local, Social and Mobile’ by partnering up with TopGuest. I have written before about how TopGuest works (be…
Asian Animated video on AA Bankruptcy
Here we go again. NMA Animation has posted an animated video explaining American Airlines bankruptcy. Now, it is an over the top video with sections…
American Airlines Files for Ch. 11 Protection!
American Airlines has bit the bullet and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They are not going out of business (yet). So, all out miles are…
Redemptions in coach make sense, at least to me!
There is a huge debate going on in the travel blogosphere about the value of miles. I don’t want to incite it further but am…
Missed opportunities
These come for me in two favors: one where I never even knew I could have earned extra miles (or extra EQM) till it was too late and second where I did what I needed to do to earn the miles, but the miles never posted and I lost track, till it was too late. … I use a spreadsheet to track all activity that has taken place which I think should earn miles – eating out, filling out surveys, customer service events, signing up for promos, etc.
The best credit card recommendation: Figure it out yourself
When I was a kid, my dad ingrained the doctrine “Learn from and listen to everyone, follow no one” in me. I have found this…
Last day to get free 500 Mileage Plus Miles
Through today (Nov. 11th, 2011), United is offering 500 Mileage Plus miles for downloading and using their new Mileage Plus shopping assistant. You can also…
