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This is especially great in case you need to extend the life of your miles. Like most domestic mileage programs, AA requires activity every 18 months to keep your account alive!
“Please allow 10-12 weeks for AAdvantage miles to post to your account. Maximum of 500 miles per household per year. Offer void in CT, GA, IA, ME, MA, MO, NV, NJ, NM, NY and UT.”
Related: New Priority Club PointBreaks Hotel List Released ($30/night hotels!)
Quiz 1 Linky (100 points)
Quiz 2 Linky (100 points)
Quiz 3 Linky (300 points)
The points for these quizzes post instantly!
Psst…DAC, CDB, DDDDC
For waived card fees use code (03/15): EMVALAX
Shipping is extra, but under shipping method you can pick the “premium shipping” option for a free trial period of $99/year next-day air free shipping.
“If you choose to cancel before your 3-month free trial ends, all shipping charges during this period will be waived and you will not be charged the annual enrollment fee.”
If you need to meet spending thresholds for bonus points (like 15K Starpoints for spending $15K within 6 months on the AMEX Starwood, 15K MR Points for spending $1,000 within 3 months on the AMEX Premier Rewards card, 25K MR Points for spending $1,000 within 3 months on the AMEX Platinum Card, etc.) but don’t have enough stuff to buy right away than this may be for you!
Just buy the amount of Gift Cards you need to get you over the spending threshold bonus and then you’ll be able to use the GC as you need them on your everyday purchases.
There are never any fees for inactivity on the card. If you don’t finish using the GC by the expiration date then AMEX will send you a check for the remaining balance.
You can use Visa, MC, or AMEX, and the GC’s are treated as a purchase, not as a cash advance, and will earn miles or points.
The most GC’s you can buy in one order is $5,000.
Terms and Conditions: “By using the Card you agree to be bound by the Terms and Conditions in their entirety. Should you wish not to be bound by these Terms and Conditions in their entirety you must, prior to using the Card, request and obtain a refund of the value of the card by calling the 1-877-297-4438.”
Use coupon code: MUAA044
-This is combinable with any corporate AWD codes.
-Valid at airport locations in the US and Canada.
-Expires 03/31/2011.
-The 3,000 bonus miles are in addition to the regular earnings of 2 USAirways miles per dollar spent at Avis.
Related:
New Priority Club PointBreaks Hotel List Released
www.pointsloser.priorityclub.com
Hilton recently devalued their points and Priority Club is taking a stab back at them with the “Luckiest Loser” promo!
Everyone who has a Hilton account will have 1,000 points instantly added to their Priority Club balance.
Plus the 20,000 entrants who have the most Hilton points will get 20% of their Hilton balance back as free Priority Club points, up to 20,000. I’m unfortunately sitting on 200,000 devalued Hilton points…but 20,000 free Priority Club points would be quite nice!
The “Luckiest Loser” gets 2 million points!
You need to upload a screenshot of your Hilton balance to prove your point balance.
So, how many Hilton points do you have?
HT: David, via dansdeals.com/forums
All you need to do is register your Onepass number for these offers and you’ll get 200 miles deposited into your account. The miles may post anytime between now and mid-May…
Effective today you can book one-way awards on United for half of the round-trip miles.
A huge advantage of one-way awards is that you can now mix and match Saver and Standard awards by booking them as one-way awards. Previously United required you to purchase a Standard award if just one of the flights did not have Saver availability.
One-way awards can currently only be booked online, and are only good for travel on United. You can’t book a one-way flight on Continental for example or any other partner airline.
Unfortunately you can’t take a stopover on a one-way award. When AA introduced one-way awards last year they eliminated most stopovers on all mileage redemptions. However they continued to allow a stopover at the North American gateway city (as well as all connections of under 24 hours).
With the new United one-way awards there are no stopovers allowed at all. The good news (for the time-being at least) is that unlike with AA stopovers are still permitted on round-trip award redemptions.
The other major news from United is the launch of Miles & Money Awards which can actually be half-decent.
Miles & Money Awards are unfortunately only valid in economy, so it’s hard to come up with come of the incredible values that you can get from Business or First class redemptions.
Here are some examples with cents per mile valuations compared with buying the ticket: (CPM valuations are generally a good way to determine whether to use miles or buy the ticket. The higher the CPM, the more bang you’re getting for your miles. When I was able to book a $400 NYC-Montreal ticket using 6,400 Starpoints+$40 I got a value of $360 for 6,400 points or 5.63 cents per Starpoint.)
1. JFK-LAX, 02/07 (flight 891)-02/10 (flight 84).
Paid ticket: $425.40 with tax
Miles: 25,000+$5 tax. Total CPM value: 1.7
Miles & Money: 15,000+ $140.73. Total CPM: 1.9
-Like buying 10,000 miles for $135.73, or 1.36 cents per mile.
2. Chicago(ORD)-NYC(LGA), 02/07 (flight 674)-02/10 (flight 669).
Paid ticket: $391.40 with tax
Miles: 25,000+$5 tax. Total CPM: 2.57
Miles & Money: 10,000+ $121.38. Total CPM: 2.7
-Like buying 15,000 miles for $116.38, or 0.78 cents per mile.
3. Chicago(ORD)-Paris(CDG), 02/03 (flight 942)-02/10 (flight 943).
Paid ticket: $1,366.10 with tax
Miles: 55,000+$82.40 tax. Total CPM: 2.48
Miles & Money: 30,000+ $399.10. Total CPM: 3.22
-Like buying 25,000 miles for $316.70, or 1.27 cents per mile.
4. Cleveland(CLE)-Denver(DEN), 02/04 (flight 6753)-02/09 (flight 6636).
Paid ticket: $715.40 with tax
Miles: 25,000+$5.00 tax. Total CPM: 2.86
Miles & Money: 10,000+ $131.05. Total CPM: 5.84
-Like buying 15,000 miles for $126.05, or 0.84 cents per mile.
Update: I received 2 letters via snail-mail from Chase with tracking numbers for 10,000 Continental miles and 15,000 Continental miles respectively. Both letters had a contact number for a personal banker to speak with and my correct Continental Onepass mileage number listed on them without my having to call up Chase to supply it!
Originally posted on 01/10:
I posted back in August about the new Chase bank account offer that awards 25,000 miles without the need for direct deposit as was required in the past. They gave the option to make 5 debit transactions instead of requiring direct deposit.
-With a Continental debit card you also get a free piece of checked luggage for yourself and anyone else on your itinerary when you fly Continental. See Dansdeals.com/baggage for all baggage fees and exemptions.
-The 25,000 mile consumer offer requires making 5 purchases on a Continental debit card which carries a $25 annual fee. The card earns 1 mile for every 2 dollars spent.
-The 25,000 mile business offer requires funding the account with $500 and making a purchase on a Continental debit card which carries a $65 annual fee. The card earns 1 mile for every dollar spent.
-The terms state that you can get the miles for each offer once per calendar year.
-Based on advice in this thread on the Dansdeals Forums I was successfully able to open a consumer account online by using the unique coupon code generated when you click on the offer links above! Just generate your own coupon code, and apply for a checking account online. The “Chase checking” account is free with 5 debit transactions in a month. The “Chase better banking” account is free with a $1,500 balance.
-You enter the coupon code on the page right after choosing an account and clicking “Open now.”
-Be sure to also request the $25 Continental debit card when you apply online.
-I was able to fund the account with $500 from my Chase Continental credit card, thereby earning another 500 easy miles! You can fund the account with any Visa or Mastercard for up to $500. It specifically says that it will count as a purchase, not as a cash advance.
-You must fund the account with a minimum of $100 of new funds.
-There is no need to open a savings account, you can however fund it with another $500 if you choose to open one.
-If you’re worries about getting the miles, you may want to make a printout of the offer during the application when it mentions the 25,000 miles.
-There is no place to enter in your Continental Onepass number, so you will have to call up Chase after you receive your debit card to supply them with your mileage number.
-Only the consumer offer accepted the code for me online, the business offer did not work with the code online-you’ll have to go in a branch for that one.
-On an account that I opened last year 22,500 miles posted within a few weeks of making the 5 debit purchases, and the remaining 2,500 miles took a of couple months.
-I was able to make 5 debit purchases at a Sam’s Club gas station for $0.02 each which qualified for the miles-so there is no minimum on the 5 purchases.
-25,000 miles is enough for a free domestic ticket (only 20,000 miles are needed for short-haul flights under 1,500 RT miles, like New York-Chicago) and is 33% of the way towards a free ticket to Israel (75,000 miles)
Spirit: Receive 5,000 miles with a $5+ donation to one of 3 relief organizations. (Note: They claim this is enough miles for a free flight…it’s not really unless you happen to have a Spirit credit card, need a flight under 1,250 miles, can travel on their limited “off-peak” days, and can find non-premium award availability on one of those days.)
AA: Receive 250 miles for a $50+ donation or 500 miles for $100+ donations to the American Red Cross
“-Earn 7,500 miles as a special bonus after your second month as an Energy Plus customer.
-Earn miles every month — 2 miles for every $1 on the supply portion of your bill.
-Earn 3 miles for every $1 you spend if you are a Continental Airlines Chase credit or debit Cardmember
-Receive monthly sales tax savings — up to 9.75% on the delivery portion of your bill.
-Enjoy the same service without risk, fees, or long-term commitment.
There are also offers for other airlines and states, but the signup bonuses are less.
USAirways CT/NY/TX Offer Linky
HT: SBS
Offer Linky (Exp: 12/31)
If you have no use for Frontier miles, you can swap them into dozens of other programs or Gift Cards for free via Points.com
HT: FT
Q1 Reduced Mileage Awards Linky
Fly to select cities worldwide for 7,500 less miles than American Airlines regularly charges if you have the AAdvantage World Mastercard!
To book these awards just call AA’s AAdvantage desk at 800-882-8880 and reference the following award code:
7,500 miles off Coach: TB8X7A
7,500 miles off Business/First: UB21X2A
You may be able to avoid the $20 phone booking charge by first placing a reservation on hold at aa.com and then calling up AAdvantage to have them reduce the cost of the award by 7,500 miles and ask for the fee to waived since it was originally booked on their website.
Below is a sample list of some of Q4’s valid destinations, origination is allowed from any US48 City.
-Atlanta
-Charlotte
-Colorado Springs
-Houston/IAH or HOU
-Kansas City
-Key West, FL
-Milwaukee
-Santa Ana, CA
-Santa Barbara, CA
-Washington DC/IAD
-Calgary, Alberta
-Halifax, Nova Scotia
-Ottowa, Ontario
(Note: You may be able to originate from any “destination” city and fly to any US48 city for the discounted rate simply by holding the ticket on aa.com and then referencing the award code above to an AAdvantage agent to get the required mileage reduced by 7,500…Be sure to report back here if you have success with this tactic or if it works for you to get to any international cities for reduced mileage!)
Related: 18 Months Later The Wall Street Journal Reports On Coins For Miles…
The mint has gotten smarter since the WSJ article. There is currently a limit of 20 boxes, or $5,000 per household through 12/31/09 unless you email them with a reason for needing more coins (like for vending machines, etc.). Before ordering be sure to set the cash advance limit on your credit card to $0 just in case it doesn’t go through as a purchase.
Send a card with a dollar bill inside for just $1 chargeable to a credit card.
If only you could send them in bulk!
I believe the article was timed to coincide with this weekend’s limited release of “Up In The Air,” in which Geroge Clooney obsessively tries to hit 10 million AA miles. (I haven’t seen it but it’s got a strong 89% positive critical rating from rottentomatoes.com) At any rate it seems hard to believe it took 18 months for the WSJ to write an article about the fun. Maybe the author was a coin churner too who didn’t want to prematurely kill the deal?
I first posted about dollar coins for miles back on 06/02/08 and again this past June when ordering became unlimited.
Since then I’ve made dozens of orders for a good couple hundred thousand coins, earning a ton of Starpoints in the interim.
The deal has been basically dead as far as I’m concerned for a little bit now as they pulled the unlimited ordering option of the Native American coins and only have the $500 limit President coins.
As far as the Hyatt deal, the WSJ is also a day late and a dollar coin short. They left out the meat of the Hyatt deal from October when you were able to get 13,500 miles plus free Hyatt nights. I don’t think anyone in the world had more Hyatt stays in October than I did, plus I picked up over 300K United miles and a couple dozen free nights!
Gary points to a seemingly incredible offer from Chase: Sign up for a $75/year British Airways card and you’ll get 50,000 BA miles. Spend $2,000 on the card within 3 months and you’ll get another 50,000 miles. Plus you get 1.25 miles per dollar spent. In addition if you spend $30,000 on the card in a calendar year you get a voucher for a free companion award ticket when you book another award ticket.
Sounds incredible, no?
Ahh…but what Gary doesn’t mention are their outrageous fuel surcharges on BA award tickets.
BA Fuel Surcharges (not including actual taxes) per longhaul segment (A Round-Trip JFK-LHR-TLV is 4 segments):
Economy (Under 9 hours): $107
Economy (Over 9 hours): $141
Premium Economy (Under 9 hours): $128
Premium Economy (Over 9 hours): $177
Business/First (Under 9 hours): $157
Business/First (Over 9 hours): $205
Other taxes and fees that BA charges will typically add more than $100 to the award ticket in addition to the fuel surcharges.
A Business Ticket from LA to Tel Aviv will cost 130,000 miles plus over $800 in fuel surcharges and other fees and taxes!
I think I’ll stick with Continental’s BusinessFirst, at 115,000 miles and $50 in taxes.
AA’s card may only get you 30K miles, but it is easily churnable and you won’t have to shell out hundreds of dollars in taxes for an award ticket…plus AA has a sweet OneWorld chart with awards that cost less miles than BA and have no fuel surcharges.
Now that you’re equipped with the rest of the story you can decide whether this card makes sense for you. 100,000 miles is indeed an incredible offer, but I personally stay far away from programs that charge such high fuel surcharges…I enjoy free award flights, not discounted flights.
Until 12/31 you can get a 100% bonus when you buy, gift, or transfer USAirways miles.
You can’t buy, share, or gift miles unless your USAirways Dividend Miles account is 10 days old.
Officially you can get up to 50,000 bonus miles from each of these activities, although there are anecdotal reports that you may get the bonus past this point.
You can buy or gift 50,000 miles for $1,373 with all taxes and get a total of 100,000 miles with the bonus (1.37 cents per mile purchased)
You can transfer 50,000 miles for $567 with all taxes and the recipient will get 100,000 miles with the bonus (1.13 cents per mile “purchased”)
USAirways may not be the best airline, but they have a couple dozen great partners as part of the Star Alliance.
Their Star Alliance chart is actually quite good! For example a ticket from the US48 to Hawaii is now 40,000 miles in coach or 80,000 miles in first when using Continental or United miles. When you use USAirways miles that same flight is only 35,000 miles in coach or 70,000 miles in first regardless of whether you fly on USAirways, Continental, or United.
You can also transfer miles from Starwood to USAirways at a 20,000:25,000 ratio.
Just beware that USAirways is notorious for their award fees and high baggage fees.
USAirways Star Alliance Chart Linky
HT: FT
Starwood AMEX Linky (Free for first year, Earn 10,000 Starpoints With First Purchase, and 30,000 more Starpoints with your first $15,000 in purchases)
AMEX Platinum Charge Card-”The Grandaddy of credit cards” (Earn 25,000 AMEX MR Bonus Points after you spend $1,000.)
Just minutes ago Continental became the largest airline ever to change airline alliances. In doing so it’s changing a number of its policies.
A Saturday night stay is no longer required for domestic rewards, but domestic rewards are rarely a worthwhile redemption so that’s not a huge deal.
There is a new award chart and it charges the same rate no matter what airline you fly on. The chart has rates that are very similar to United’s chart. However Continental has promised not to block partner availability like United has been doing of late which will make Onepass miles that much more valuable.
Continental Star Alliance Mileage Chart Linky
Interactive Travel Rewards Finder Linky
Continental Star Alliance Partners Page Linky
Continental Star Alliance Reward Rules Linky
Continental has a hidden bargain with their Round-The-World rewards which are valid on all 25 Star Alliance carriers as well as Continental’s other partners. Coach costs 160K miles, Business/BusinessFirst is 220K, and First Class on 3 class airplanes is 280K.
As Continental’s twice daily nonstop service from Newark to Tel Aviv has always been a popular award choice for Dansdeals.com readers I’m sure everyone will be happy to know that the cost of redemption on that route has gone down. It used to cost 90K miles in Economy and 120K miles in BusinessFirst. Now it will cost 75K in Economy and 115K in BusinessFirst. In addition you can now redeem at the same rates for travel on Star Alliance partners Air Canada and USAirways which fly nonstop to Tel Aviv from Toronto and Philadelphia respectively. Even more intriguing for some may be the new true first class service possibilities to Tel Aviv like Lufthansa offers for 145K miles on a ticket that normally sells for north of $10,000.
You can transfer AMEX MR points to Continental at a 1:1 ratio but unfortunately the Starwood transfer ratio is a lousy 20,000:12,500. If you are desperate for Continental miles from Starwood you could always sign up to have all your Starpoints automatically go directly into Continental miles at a 1:1 ratio.
The other aspect of the alliance swap means learning about redeeming alliance partner miles for travel on Continental. Below is a short listing of what some other Star airlines would charge to fly from Newark to Tel Aviv on Continental. The only issue is that most international airlines charge a fuel surcharge on award tickets…
Continental EWR-TLV Round trip award prices on Star partners:
ANA (Starwood transfer partner @ 20,000:25,000, AMEX MR @ 1:1): Coach-60K, BusinessFirst-90K
Asiana (Starwood transfer partner @ 20,000:25,000): Coach-78K, BusinessFirst-115K
Lufthansa (Starwood transfer partner @ 20,000:25,000): From US: Coach-80K, BusinessFirst-120K
Lufthansa: From Israel with Israeli address: Coach-60K, BusinessFirst-90K
Singapore (AMEX MR transfer partner @ 1:1): Coach-60K, BusinessFirst-100K
USAirways (Starwood transfer partner @ 20,000:25,000): Coach-80K, BusinessFirst-120K
Virgin Atlantic (Non-Star partner, Starwood transfer partner @ 20,000:25,000, AMEX MR transfer partner @1:1.15 or 1:1 after 10/31): Coach-80K, BusinessFirst-120K
From now until 10/26 you are able to load up on Jetblue Trueblue points for just $2.50/point.
A free flight on Jetblue requires 100 Trueblue points.
Jetblue’s Trueblue 2 mileage program launches in November and will award points based on the amount of money that you spend on tickets instead of the distance of the flights that you take. This is likely to be the last chance to buy miles to top up your current Trueblue account.
Just login to your Trueblue account on Jetblue’s website and click on “Buy Trueblue Points.”
-There is a 7.5% tax rate and a $20 transaction fee.
-There is a minimum purchase of 10 points per transaction.
-There is a maximum purchase of 90 points per transaction.
-A Trueblue member is limited to purchasing 95 points for themselves in a calendar year.
-A Trueblue member is limited to 150 points per calendar year between receiving points purchased by someone else and purchases made by themselves.
Update 2-10/14/09: The offer for 150 miles for watching a video and the 350 miles for an in-store demo both end today!
Update-10/02/08: This offer is alive again through 10/14/09! (Thanks to na nach for the comment!)
Originally posted on 10/26/08:
Offer Linky (Exp: 10/31/08)
Unfortunately AA/Citi has gutted this great program and no longer offers international destinations at the discounted rate. Apparently from now on only domestic cities will be offered. You can always call up the number on the back of your credit card to complain/threaten to cancel over the elimination of the discounted international destinations if you’d like them to know how you feel (or if you just want some mileage compensation…)
Q4 Reduced Mileage Awards Linky
Fly to select cities worldwide for 7,500 less miles than American Airlines regularly charges if you have the AAdvantage World Mastercard!
To book these awards just call AA’s AAdvantage desk at 800-882-8880 and reference the following award code:
7,500 miles off Coach: TG8X7A
7,500 miles off Business/First: UG21X2A
You may be able to avoid the $15 phone booking charge by first placing a reservation on hold at aa.com and then calling up AAdvantage to have them reduce the cost of the award by 7,500 miles and ask for the fee to waived since it was originally booked on their website.
Below is a sample list of some of Q4’s valid destinations, origination is allowed from any US48 City.
Open-jaws are permitted
(Note: You may be able to originate from any “destination” city and fly to any US48 city for the discounted rate simply by holding the ticket on aa.com and then referencing the award code above to an AAdvantage agent to get the required mileage reduced by 7,500…Be sure to report back here if you have success with this tactic or if it works for you to get to any international cities for reduced mileage!)
-Atlanta
-Cincinnati
-Colorado Springs
-Key West, FL
-Milwaukee
-New Orleans
-Houston/IAH or HOU
-Santa Ana, CA
-Santa Barbara, CA
-Salt Lake City
United Reduced Mileage Awards Linky
Fly anywhere in the US48 and Canada for just 20,000 miles!
-Book by 10/19/09.
-Fly between 01/10/10-04/30/10.
-Valid only on United/United Express.
Update-8:30pm: AA has just pulled this fare, so if you want to book now is your last chance!!
To get the 10% off code you have to supply your email address and AAdvantage number and play the quick soccer game. After the game go to your email address and copy the password that you were sent. You can then paste the password into the “promotion code” box and you will be sent the 10% off discount.
You can get 1 code per email address.
Discount rules:
-Valid on all AA flights from the US48 to anywhere in the world.
-Book by 12/31, travel by 01/31.
Related: Get 8 Credits for enrolling in Rapid Rewards.
Double Southwest Flight Credits Registration Linky
Valid for flights booked and completed between 09/17-10/31.
As you probably know Continental is about to become the largest airline ever to change alliances when they go from 9 member Skyteam to 24 member Star.
They leave Skyteam on 10/24. If you want to redeem Continental miles for Skyteam partner flights or partner Skyteam miles for Continental flights don’t forget to do it by 10/24!
Continental joins Star Alliance on 10/27.
Here are the major changes:
Current Continental Skyteam Mileage Chart
New Continental Star Alliance Mileage Chart, Effective 10/27
The nice thing is that for the most part with the new Star Alliance chart the rates are the same no matter which airline you fly on. Under the old charts the rates varied according to the airline. Also the premium cabin on any flight without a true business and first class is only considered business class!
The new Continental chart is basically the same as United’s chart except that a round-the-world trip is much cheaper with Continental miles (160,000 in coach, 220,000 in business, 280,000 in first) than with United miles (200,000 in coach, 300,000 in business, 400,000 in first) and Continental has promised not to block partner award availability when using Onepass miles on Star Alliance carriers, while United severely blocks partner award availability when using their miles.
Here are the rate differences when redeeming Continental miles on sample routes between the: Current Rate/New Rate.
(Most surprising is the drop in mileage for TLV flights, which were the only flights to go up for 2009, and are now amongst the only flights to go down!)
Newark-Chicago in coach with Saturday night stay: 20,000/20,000.
Newark-Los Angeles in coach without Saturday night stay: 50,000/25,000.
Newark-Honolulu in coach: 35,000/40,000.
Newark-Honolulu in BusinessFirst: 75,000/80,000.
Newark-Tel Aviv in Coach: 90,000/75,000.
Newark-Tel Aviv in BusinessFirst: 120,000/115,000.
Tel Aviv-Honolulu in Coach: 110,000/80,000.
Tel Aviv-Honolulu in BusinessFirst: 140,000/120,000.
Newark-Buenos Aires in Coach: 50,000/55,000.
Newark-Buenos Aires in BusinessFirst: 90,000/100,000.
Newark-London in Coach: 50,000/55,000.
Newark-London in BusinessFirst: 100,000/105,000.
Newark-Shanghai in Coach: 60,000/65,000.
Newark-Shanghai in BusinessFirst: 120,000/125,000.
-Saturday night stays are no longer required for a domestic saverpass reward flight. (Eff: 10/27)
-Award redeposit, change, and expedite fees are $75 per passenger for non-elites, $50 for silver elites, $25 for gold elites, and free for platinum elites. The fees are contingent on the status of the member redeeming the miles, not the status of the flying member. Date changes more than 21 days before the flight are still free. (Eff: 12/15)
-Continental Silver=Star Alliance Silver. (Eff: 10/27)
-Continental Gold and Platinum=Star Alliance Gold for international lounge access and 3 free checked bags. (Eff: 10/27)
-Continental Platinum members get free same day confirmed changes. (Eff: 10/01)
-All fares (even those not purchased on continental.com) will earn full elite miles. Finally every domestic carrier offers full redeemable and elite miles regardless of where you purchase your ticket. (Eff: 10/27)
-Elites will earn their 25%-100% bonus miles based on 500 mile minimum segment miles even on flights under 500 miles. Previously the bonus was based on the actual flight miles. (Eff: 10/27)
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Lol…this looks like it should be right up my alley, but I’ve got way more wallet candy than they have 
The minimum transfer amount is 1,000 AMEX MR points unless otherwise stated.
Hotel Program Specials:
Starwood
Transfer AMEX MR Points to Starwood Starpoints at a 2:1 ratio (Normally 3:1 ratio)
Exp: 09/22
Priority Club
Transfer AMEX MR Points to Priority Club points at a 1:1.2 ratio. (Normally 1:1 ratio)
Exp: 11/30
Airline Program Specials:
Delta
Transfer AMEX MR Points to Delta Skymiles at a 1:1.2 ratio (Normally 1:1 ratio)
Exp: 09/30
Virgin Atlantic
Transfer AMEX MR Points to Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles at a 1:1.15 ratio (Normally 1:1 ratio)
Exp: 10/31
Iberia
Transfer AMEX MR Points to Iberia Plus miles at a 1:1.2 ratio with a minimum 28,000 point transfer (Normally 1:1 ratio)
Exp: 09/30
Continental Mileathon Registration Linky
With the Mileathon the more activities that you do, the more miles you get! Normally this is a targeted promo, but it currently has open registration!
Sample activities:
-Enroll in the OnePass frequent flyer program
-Purchase an Economy Class round-trip ticket
-Book online at continental.com
-Check in online at continental.com
-Acquire a Continental Airlines Credit Card
All activities between 09/01-12/31 count for credits and at the end of the period you can trade the credits for the corresponding number of miles.
Related: Double Southwest Credits For Flights To/From NYC!
Be sure to provide your email address and opt-in for all 3 email subscriptions to get the full 8 credits.
6 credits will post immediately upon enrollment. The last 2 credits (for the email subscriptions) will post within 7-10 business days.
16 credits are required to get a free systemwide RT ricket on Southwest.
Update: Offer ends tomorrow (08/15)!
Originally posted on 07/21:
USAirways Star Alliance Award Chart Linky
USAirways normally sells miles for 2.5 cents per mile. With this offer you will get them at 1.25 cents per mile, plus a $30 processing fee. There is a limit of 50,000 bonus miles when you purchase 50,000 miles.
50,000 miles is enough for a ticket from the US-Europe on any Star Alliance carrier in coach, and 80,000 miles will get you to Europe in business class on any Star Alliance carrier.
For Israel it takes 80,000 in coach and 120,000 in business class.
Continental is leaving Skyteam for Star Alliance in October…
HT: FT
Starwood AMEX Linky (Free for first year, Earn 10,000 Starpoints With First Purchase, and 30,000 more Starpoints with your first $15,000 in purchases) The US Mint should be able to help you there in no time!
AMEX Platinum Charge Card-”The Grandaddy of credit cards” (Earn 25,000 AMEX MR Bonus Points after you spend $1,000.) AMEX MR points transfer to Flying Blue miles at 1:1.
20,000 Starwood Starpoints transfer into 25,000 Flying Blue (Air France and KLM’s joint loyalty program) miles.
Updates/Notes:
-This recurring promotion is now valid for travel on Air France as well as KLM!
-New valid US and Canadian cities have been added.
-Currently, booking must be completed by 09/28 and travel completed by 09/30, besides for departures from Calgary which must be completed by 10/30
-Be sure to check on current availability before transferring points to Flying Blue.
-Bear in mind when comparing mileage requiremnts between foreign and domestic mileage programs that nearly all foreign carriers besides for LAN (Starwood transfers at 20,000 to 50,000 LAN) charge a fuel surcharge on award tickets.
Originally posted on 01/01/09:
In that article he pointed ways of getting to Israel for 40,000 Starpoints or less (Via transferring Starpoints to JAL, British Airways, LAN, or Flying Blue)
The promo award cost between North America and “Europe” in flying blue miles is:
Coach: 12,500 miles one way, 25,000 miles round trip.
Business: 25,000 miles one-way, 50,000 miles round trip.
Business class is only available on KLM.
Valid North American cities for origin or destination on Air France:
-Atlanta
-Houston
-Montreal
Valid North American cities for origin or destination on KLM:
-Atlanta
-Calgary
-Dallas
-NYC/JFK
This is how Flying Blue defines Europe:
Europe 1: Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, and Switzerland
Europe 2: Austria, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden
Europe 3: Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Libya, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Western Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Tunisia, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia
As Flying Blue considers Israel to be part of Europe (zone 3), it qualifies as a valid origin or destination.
The promo awards can only be flown with KLM via Amsterdam or with Air France via Paris, they are not valid on Skyteam partners such as Continental or Delta (although nonstop travel to Israel on those carriers is allowed on the regular 40,000 Starpoints/50,000 Flying Blue miles award to Europe zone 3 in coach or 80,000 flying blue miles in business.)
Unfortunately, you cannot search online for mileage availability on Flying Blue unless you have the required miles in your account.
A stopover in Amsterdam or Paris is allowed and will make finding mileage availability easier.
The best bet for checking availability will be by calling Flying Blue at 1-800-375-8723
HT: SBS
With the consumer offer you get 10,000 miles after opening the checking account and making 5 debit card transactions within 60 days of opening the account.
You get another 15,000 miles after your first purchase on a Continental debit card. The cheapest Continental debit card has a $25 annual fee.
If you have a Continental Airlines debit card, you and all of your traveling companions will get to check a free bag when flying on Continental regardless of which credit card is used to purchase the ticket.
With the business offer you get 10,000 miles after opening the checking account and depositing $500 within 30 days of opening the account, and another 15,000 miles for making a purchase on a Continental debit card.
HT: FT
Update 2: Last day to transfer! USAirways makes it clear in the terms and conditions that as long as the hotel records your request to transfer by 07/31 that you will get the bonus miles as long as the transfer is complete by 09/30.
Update: Chaim reports that his bonus miles have posted! The promo runs through 07/31.
Originally posted on 05/23:
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USAirways is giving a 50% bonus on hotel points being transferred into USAirways miles through 07/31.
Normally 20,000 Starpoints transfers into 25,000 USAirways miles. With the promo 20,000 Starpoints will net 37,500 miles.
The 50% bonus miles post weekly.
USAirways begins flying nonstop from Philadelphia to Tel Aviv on July 1st. They charge 80,000 miles in coach and 120,000 miles in business class for the round-trip.
USAirways also has a very competitive Star Alliance award chart which is far stronger than United’s due to lower rates and the lack of United’s evil Starnet alliance award flight blocking.
In addition you will be able to use USAirways miles on Continental when Continental joins the Star Alliance later this year.
So here’s the real question, what’s worth more to you, 1 Starpoint or 1.875 USAirways miles?
Vote now!
Double redeemable miles on all AA flights through 12/31/09 for CT, NJ, and NY residents based on the address on file for your AAdvantage account.
These are not elite-qualifying miles, but they will count towards lifetime AA million miler status. With my lifetime Platinum status this means I could get 300% base redeemable miles on AA flights…
Update: Per request of Discover, all comments on this post have been removed and future comments on this post are not allowed.
Discover Current Debit Card Linky
Use the following code when applying to waive the $5 monthly fee for the first month: DM110810
The card is meant for a parent to give to their teens. You can open up to 3 teen debit cards per parental account.
Each of the 3 teen debit cards can be funded with up to $2,500 for a total of $7,500. You can fund it with any Discover, Mastercard, or Visa credit card and the funding will count as a purchase.
Effective 07/30 you will no longer pay any expedite fees on United when booking or changing an award ticket!
Expedite fees originated in an era when paper tickets were the norm, and booking an award ticket close to the date of departure had real fees (overnight delivery, etc.) for the airline.
However as the airlines migrated to e-tickets the award expedite fees have stayed and even grown to as high as $150 on Delta.
United charged as much as $100 to book an award ticket within 21 days of departure or to change an existing award ticket to a flight to within 21 days.
What’s really nice about this change is that many airlines now only open up mileage seats at the last minute when they see that the seats won’t be sold and when they will reap an expedite fee.
Hopefully the other major airlines will go ahead on match United in eliminating expedite fees.
Here is a chart that I previously made before this change on expedite fees, based on how many days before departure the mileage ticket is booked (No airline charges an expedite fee for tickets booked 21+ days before departure, USAirways offers a $25 online discount through 08/12 and is the only domestic airline to still charge a fuel surcharge to all US originating award flights) :
|
Airline: |
14-20 |
8-13 |
7 |
4-6 |
0-3 |
|
AA |
$50 |
$50 |
$50 |
$100 |
$100 |
|
Continental |
$75 |
$75 |
$75 |
$75 |
$75 |
|
Delta |
$75 |
$75 |
$100 |
$100 |
$150 |
|
Northwest |
$75 |
$75 |
$100 |
$100 |
$150 |
|
United |
$75 |
$75 |
$75 |
$100 |
$100 |
|
USAirways |
$75 |
$75 |
$75 |
$75 |
$75 |
Related: Transfer 20,000 Starpoints Into 37,500 USAirways miles.
-Between US/Canada and the Caribbean: Normally 30K in coach or 60K in First/Business. Only 25K in coach or 50K in first/Business for flights between 09/01/09 and 09/30/09.
-Between North America and Europe: Normally 50K in coach or 80K in First/Business. Only 35K in coach or 60K in first/Business for flights between 01/15/10 and 02/28/10.
The full details are just under the regular award chart.
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