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Offer Registration Linky

Register by 08/31.

Book and complete travel between 07/16-10/31.

With the promo a Round-trip flight will earn 4 credits, 16 credits earns a free ticket.

For you New Yorkers who have yet to fly Southwest:

The good: 2 free bags and no change/cancellation fees.

The bad: No assigned seats, no true elite status/airport lounge system, no first class, and they don’t fly internationally so forget about using your miles for a “once-in-a-lifetime” first class international trip.

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Valid only for economy saver awards on United flights.

Travel valid 08/18-11/18.

Book by 07/24.

Sale awards, from North America to:

North America (excluding Hawaii): 20,000 miles

Carribean/Central America: 25,000 miles

Hawaii: 30,000 miles

South America: 44,000 miles

Asia: 50,000 miles

Europe: 44,000 miles

Middle East: 60,000 miles

Australia: 64,000 miles

Well, I finally hit 2,000,000 AA miles which means that I now have lifetime Platinum status.

American Airlines is the only airline in the world that counts all earned miles towards million miler/lifetime elite status! Every other airline only counts actual flight miles to attain lifetime elite status.

I joined the AA program in 2002, hit 1,000,000/Lifetime Gold in 2007, and now have over 2,000,000 miles!

Between churning cards, a 14 flight/36 hour mileage run, and the alive and kicking US mint deal it was actually not so hard.

So, What’s in your wallet?

When you hit 1,000,000 you get 8 500-mile domestic upgrade stickers if you live in North America, or 4 one-way international upgrades certificates if you live outside North America.

When you hit 2,000,000 AA miles you get 4 one-way international upgrades regardless of where you live.

As the lifetime program is completely undocumented, it is liable to change at any time. There have been rumors for some time now that AA wants to go to actual flight miles for lifetime status, but lacks the technology to go back and see how every member actually earned their miles.

For now all miles earned, whether by flying, opening credit cards, or transfers from Starwood, count towards lifetime status. Even if you spend miles, your lifetime counter does not decrease.

You can check your own progress towards lifetime status on AA.com where it lists your total program miles to date.

I got a kick out of the first line of the congratulatory letter, “When you first became a million miler, you may not have thought about the next threshold…” Well they obviously don’t know their customer too well do they?

Copy and paste the following link:

http://www.continental.com/web/en-US/apps/onepass/promotions/registrationDetails.aspx?promoCode=A7319

Valid for the first passenger on an itinerary with a Onepass number listed.

Valid for tickets bought between 07/01 and 08/31.

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…)

Q3 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: TD8X7A
7,500 miles off Business/First: UD21X2A

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 Q2’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.)
-NYC/LGA
-Cincinnati
-Columbus
-Atlanta
-Key West, FL
-Houston/IAH
-Santa Barbara, CA

Related: 18-22 years old? Fly without a ticket for cheap with Airtran U!

AMEX MR Offer Linky

The normal exchange rate for AMEX membership rewards points into Airtran credits is 1,500:1.
Between 07/01 and 08/30 you can transfer just 1,125 AMEX MR points for each Airtran credit.

A nice thing about Airtran is that they still don’t charge an expedite fee for award tickets, but beware that credit expire just one year from when you earn them unless you have an Airtran credit card or elite status.

With the discounted exchange rate the cost of Airtran rewards are as follows:
-One-way upgrade to business class (allows for upgrades to both nonstop or connecting flights) from any paid or award fare: 4 credits/4,500 MR.
-One-way “restricted” coach systemwide free ticket: 8 credits/9,000 MR.
-One-way “unrestricted” business class systemwide free ticket: 16 credits/18,000 MR.
-Round-trip coach ticket on Frontier in the US48 and Canada: 20 credits/22,500 MR
-Round-trip coach ticket on Frontier to Alaska and Mexico: 32 credits/36,000 MR
-Round-trip coach ticket on any airline to US48 cities Airtran doesn’t fly to: 32 credits/36,000 MR
-Round-trip coach ticket on any airline to Alaska, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico: 50 credits/56,250 MR
-Round-trip coach ticket on any airline to anywhere in the world: 100 credits/112,500 MR
-Unlimited free Airtran companion pass for a year: 100 credits/112,500 MR

Related: Great New Benefits For The Delta AMEX Platinum Card (Waived expedite fees, waived partner airline fees, online companion certs)

Delta AMEX Platinum Card Linky


Double Delta Flight Miles Offer Linky

With this promotion, not only will you earn double miles on the purchase of a Delta ticket, but you will earn double the miles for your actual flights flown for the rest of this year!

This offer is not targeted, it will work for any new or existing primary Delta AMEX cardholder.

Related: Get 10,000 MR Points with the AMEX Gold card or 25,000 MR Points with the AMEX Plat Card.

Note: You can also get enough Virgin miles for a US-UK ticket by transferring 20,000 Starpoints into 25,000 Virgin miles.

AMEX MR Offer Linky (Exp: 06/30)

With the transfer bonus you’ll be able to fly between the US and the UK for 22,000 AMEX MR Points!

You can fly between US cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, NYC and more to/from the UK for 25,000 Virgin Atlantic miles.

Beware that Virgin is notorious for high fuel surcharges on award tickets.

Related: Starwood AMEX Linky (Free for first year, Earn 10,000 Starpoints With First Purchase, and 30,000 more Starpoints after your first $15,000 in purchases).


US Mint Direct Ship Coins Linky


I received a shipment yesterday of $10,000 worth of coins from the US Mint!

When I first posted about the Mint deal last June there was a limit of $500 per President.  I wrote about my somewhat difficult experience depositing the coins in that post as well.

For those of you not familiar with the mint deal, you can buy coins at face value with free shipping and charge them to any credit card.

Since then I’ve switched to Chase bank where the tellers don’t even bat an eye at my typical $5,000 coin deposit. I’m in and out within 3 minutes.

More recently I noticed that the quantity limits for the Native American dollar coins were no longer listed on the site.

So I placed a $10,000 order and I got them less than a week later!

Sure I need to shlep 4 boxes each weighing 40 pounds to the bank, but hey, 10,000 Starwood points is 10,000 Starwood points!  (Using a past Starpoint redemption of mine that netted a return of 52 cents per Starpoint that’s worth $5,200, although more conventional wisdom would place a value of about $300 on them…)

This post is for all of you who don’t want to carry in 100 pounds of dollar coins into your local branch…

AMEX Gift Cards Linky

If you need to meet spending thresholds for bonus points (like 15K Starpoints for spending $15K within 6 months on the AMEX Starwood, 10K MR Points for spending $500 within 3 months on the AMEX Gold Rewards card, 25K MR Points for spending $1,000 within 3 months on the AMEX Platinum Card, etc.) but don’t have anything 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.

You can use Visa, MC, or AMEX, and the GC’s are treated as a purchase, not as a cash advance.

You can only use one code:
For $5.95 off shipping use code (Exp: 07/31): AFL721
For waived card fees use code (Exp: 06/30): ENL55A

The most GC’s you can buy in one order is $5,000.  Depending on your order either of the previous codes may work out better for you.

Updates:
-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 on KLM depends on the city as to when travel must take place, but ranges between now and 10/31/09 and travel on Air France must be completed by 07/31/09

Originally posted on 01/01/09:

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…

AMEX Gold Charge Card Linky (Free for first year, Earn 10,000 AMEX MR Bonus Points after you spend $500.) 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.

That is all you will need to have to get to Israel or any other “European” destination through 10/31/09!

S.B.S. previously made an excellent 8 page PDF examining every way of getting to Israel via Starpoints.

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)

Through 10/31/09 there is a promo award to/from many cities in North America and Europe Zones 1, 2, or 3.

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.

For travel on KLM tickets the valid dates vary by city, so check the promo award page for the details.
For travel on Air France tickets must be booked by 07/29/09, and travel must be completed by 07/31/09.

Valid North American cities for origin or destination on Air France:
-Philadelphia
-Washington D.C.

Valid North American cities for origin or destination on KLM:
-Atlanta
-Calgary
-Chicago
-Dallas
-Detroit
-Houston
-Los Angeles
-Montreal
-NYC/JFK
-S. Francisco
-Washington D.C.

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.)

Flying Blue Promo Awards Linky

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

Offer Linky

When renting from Avis supply your Delta Skymiles number and use coupon code: MUAA088
-Valid through 07/31
-Valid for rentals of 2 days or more (a rental greater than 1 day but under 2 days should count)
-Maximum of 5 bonuses per customer
-5,000 miles are in addition to the normal miles earned per rental.

HT: FT

Offer Linky

Valid for travel to/from the US48 and Canada.

-Book by 07/21

-Travel by 09/02

-Blackout: 07/02-07/06.

Normally you can earn 500 miles when you stay in a Hyatt. Through 08/31/09 you can earn 3,000 miles for each stay, or 3 RR credits on Southwest!

Just register your Hyatt Gold Passport number or create a new Hyatt account with the airline of your preference!

AA Offer Linky

Air Canada Offer Linky

Continental Offer Linky

Delta Offer Linky

Northwest Offer Linky

Southwest Offer Linky (3 RR credits)

United Offer Linky

USAirways Offer Linky

Note:  Need AA Miles? You can transfer 20K Starwood Starpoints that you’ve earned from your Starwood AMEX into 25K AA miles. Or you can easily churn AA’s credit card from Citibank.

Effective immediately you can now book one-way awards on American Airlines for half of the round-trip mileage required!

AA is the first major US based carrier to allow for one-way awards.

Besides for the obvious benefit of being able to book a one-way flight when you only need to travel one-way, there are even benefits from this new policy if you are traveling round-trip.

Previously if you were flying JFK-LAX and there was a 25K MileSAAver on the outbound, but only a 50K AAnytime on the return, the ticket would cost 50K.  With the new one-way ticket pricing that trip would only be 37.5K.  Or you could just book the outbound for 12.5K and keep checking for a 12.5K return flight to open up.

Additionally AA has a number of off-peak awards to international destinations.  Previously if your trip spanned from off-peak into peak pricing the entire trip was priced at peak.  Now you will be able to mix peak and off-peak pricing.

The only casualty of this new policy is the loss of a free stopover in an international city, which will now be priced as an additional one-way flight.  Seems like a very worthwhile trade-off in my book though…

Between this very customer friendly policy change, the counting of all AA miles towards lifetime elite status, and the ongoing amazing availbility of AA awards at MileSAAver rates, AAdvantage miles are by far the most valuable domestic mileage currency today.

Related: Southwest landing in LGA on 06/28!

Enrollment Offer Linky

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.

Although the fine print indicates that a MN address is required, I can confirm that the credits post immediately regardless of the address listed on the account.

16 credits are required to get a free systemwide RT ricket on Southwest.

HT: username, via dansdeals.com/forums.

I admit it, I let my some 170,000 of my mom’s AA miles expire. But c’mon I’ve got miles and points in dozens of programs, can I really be expected to track my entire family’s miles as well? (I’ve since added my entire family’s mileage programs to my own mileage spreadsheet.)

Fine, my bad, but not to worry though, AA has an unpublished program called the “Re-Engage ChAAlenge!”

Sure AA has a published Reactivate miles program, but it’s prohibitively pricey…

So you probably know about AA’s Elite ChAAlenge which started costing money as of last October.

But AA also has a ChAAlenge to let you reactivate your miles for free.

There are 3 levels of the Re-Engage ChAAlenge. You have 1 year to complete the ChAAlenge from the date you sign up.
Sign up by simply calling AAdvantage customer service at 800-882-8880, say “AAdvantage account,” and ask for the Re-Engage ChAAlenge. They will send you an email with a PDF telling you exactly what you need to do to unexpire your miles. When you complete the requirements just call them back at the same number.

Re-Engage ChAAlenge Level 1: For reinstating 1-50,000 miles:
-You must subscribe to AAdvantage eSummary and AAdvantage Promotions email for 3 months.
And any one of the following:
Option 1: Open a new AA credit card and spend $750 on it.
Option 2: Earn 5,000 AA miles from a minimum of 3 AA partners. (See mileagemaximizer.com for tips)
Option 3: Fly on a round trip AA flight of at least 750 miles each way.

Re-Engage ChAAlenge Level 2: For reinstating 50,001-200,000 miles:
-You must subscribe to AAdvantage eSummary and AAdvantage Promotions email for 3 months.
-You must open a new AA credit card and spend $750 on it.
And either of the following:
Option 1: Earn 5,000 AA miles from a minimum of 3 AA partners. (See mileagemaximizer.com for tips)
Option 2: Fly on a round trip AA flight of at least 750 miles each way.

Re-Engage ChAAlenge Level 3: For reinstating 200,001 or more miles:
-You must subscribe to AAdvantage eSummary and AAdvantage Promotions email for 3 months.
-You must open a new AA credit card and spend $750 on it.
And either of the following:
Option 1: Earn 10,000 AA miles from a minimum of 3 AA partners. (See mileagemaximizer.com for tips)
Option 2: Fly on 2 round trip AA flights of at least 750 miles each way.

Update: Promo booking period ends on 04/20!!!

Related: Fly On Delta’s Brand New Lie-Flat Business Elite Seats To Israel For Just 90,000 Miles Round Trip!

Originally posted on 04/06:

With this promotion:
-BusinessElite tickets to Israel are now 90,000 miles.
-Coach tickets to Israel are now 72,000 miles.

Starwood points transfer into Delta or Northwest miles at a 20,000:25:000 ratio. Delta and Northwest miles are now transferable in either direction.

Northwest Offer Linky

Delta Offer Linky

Save 10%-20% off the normally required miles for a coach ticket, and 25% off Business class tickets to international destinations!

Rules:
-Book by 04/20.
-Book at least 14 days before departure
-Travel between 04/20 and 06/15.
-Stay over Saturday night
-Valid on Delta and Northwest (and KLM for Northwest Worldperks members)

Related:

Starwood AMEX Linky

Link your Northwest and Delta accounts and get 500 miles. Plus you’ll be able to transfer an unlimited amount miles back and forth for free.

25% Off Delta Business Elite Class Tickets

Lie-Flat Seats to Tel Aviv for 90K Miles

Delta and Northwest are running promotions for double miles when transferring miles to someone else’s Delta or Northwest account through 05/31/09

The fee for doing so is a penny per mile plus a $25 transaction fee on Northwest or a $30 transaction fee on Delta.

You can transfer up to 30,000 miles in a shot, which would give the recipient 60,000 total miles for a cost for $325 on Northwest or $330 on Delta. Of course charging it to a card like your Starwood AMEX will also net you 325-330 Starpoints on the transaction, bringing down the cost even further.

You can then transfer back the miles to your account, which will double them again. Be creative and you’ll be able to keep on going and going and going…

Northwest limits the amount of incoming miles via the inter-account transfer to 30,000 per year and the amount of outgoing miles via the inter-account transfer to 75,000 per year.

Delta limits the amount of incoming miles via the inter-account transfer to 300,000 per year and the amount of outgoing miles via the inter-account transfer to 150,000 per year.

In my experience the Northwest transfer occurs instantaneously, and the bonus miles will post immediately together with the transferred miles. The Delta transfer may take a day and the bonus miles will come within another day or two.

With this promotion you should be able to earn 90,000 Delta miles, or the amount of miles required for a Business Elite class trip to Tel Aviv during the current mileage ticket promo, for under $1,000.

Northwest 2x Transfer Miles Offer Linky

Northwest Transfer Miles Linky

Northwest Transfer Miles T’s And C’s Linky

Delta 2x Transfer Miles Offer Linky

Delta Transfer Miles Linky

Delta Transfer Miles T’s And C’s Linky

I’ve posted this before, but it’s worth revisiting before the Worldperks program is shut down…the miles post instantly.

Worldperks University Linky

Update: This bonus has been extended until 04/30!

Originally posted on 02/01:

You can now transfer miles between Delta and Northwest in either direction for free, as many times as you want!

You need to link the accounts first, and you will get 500 miles just for linking the accounts!
Although the description of the offer implies that you need to actually transfer miles to get the miles, the terms make it clear that you only need to link the accounts.

Offer Linky

Terms:
“Members of the SkyMiles and WorldPerks programs may link their accounts and receive a one-time bonus of 500 bonus miles. To be eligible for this offer, the member will need to complete the linking process application on delta.com between January 29, 2009 and March 15, 2009. Bonus miles will post the member’s SkyMiles account 4-6 weeks following the end of the promotion, March 15, 2009.”

I have been busily booking up tickets for friends and family on Delta’s fabulous 25% off business elite mileage tickets sale.

While I don’t think much of the 72,000 mile offering in coach to TLV, the 90,000 mile business elite offering is quite nice. It didn’t take much to convince my father in-law to pay the $100 redeposit fee and an extra 10,000 miles to cancel his coach MCI-TLV ticket and rebook it in business elite.

At any rate on select dates Delta will be flying their brand new 777-200LR aircraft to Tel Aviv which has the brand new lie-flat Business Elite seats. I was just able to snag some seats for my Aunt and Uncle on the lie-flats at the 90k rate!

Here are some links to give you an idea of the difference between Delta’s old and new Business Elite seats:

Old Business Elite

New Business Elite (777-200LR)

And finally a picture of good ole’ cattle class (where you should never have to sit if you play your miles right)

I see the 7770-200LR aircraft operating on the following dates for example:
JFK-TLV:
05/21
05/23
05/25
05/27
05/29
05/31
06/02
ATL-TLV:
05/31
TLV-JFK:
05/23
05/25
05/27
05/31
06/02
You have to click on “view seats” to see if it is listed as a 777-200LR. If you find more dates be sure to post!

Update: AA and United now both have fares between Boston and Los Angeles for $79+ each way for a total of just $179 round trip with all taxes! A RT flight will earn 15,666 redeemable miles and 10,444 elite qualifying miles!

Originally posted on 03/31:

AA has filed fares for $99 each way between Boston and Los Angeles, San Francisco, or San Diego.
With all taxes the round-trip price should be about $219. Same-day turnarounds are permitted.
Travel is valid between 04/29 and 06/17. Travel on Sundays and Fridays will be more.
Sample valid flight:
05/05, AA192, LAX-BOS, 10:15pm-6:50am.
05/06, AA25, BOS-LAX, 8:20am-11:45am.

Use aa.com’s “price and schedule” feature for help finding cheap days to fly.

You can combine 2 great promotions on these routes.
-Triple Redeemable miles.
-Double elite miles.

Thus the miles earned for non-elites, for a single RT flight, Boston to/from:
-Los Angeles: 15,666 redeemable miles, 10,444 elite qualifying miles.
-San Francisco: 16,224 redeemable miles, 10,816 elite qualifying miles.
-San Diego: 15,528 redeemable miles, 10,351 elite qualifying miles.
Of course Gold elites will also earn their 25% redeemable mileage bonus, and Platinum/EXP elites will earn their 100% redeemable mileage bonus.

There is no limit to the number of bonus miles that can be earned.

-Gold elite can be earned on AA by earning 25,000 elite qualifying miles in a calender year.
-Platinum elite can be earned on AA by earning 50,000 elite qualifying miles in a calender year.
-Executive Platinum elite can be earned on AA by earning 100,000 elite qualifying miles in a calender year.
Elite status earned by flying in 2009 would last until 02/28/11.

Lifetime Gold elite status can also be earned by banking 1,000,000 redeemable elite miles. Lifetime Platinum elite status is earned by banking 2,000,000 redeemable elite miles. AA is the only airline that counts redeemable elite miles (as opposed to elite qualifying miles) for earning million miler status.

Good luck, and if you do go (or are considering going) on a mileage run be sure to write about it in the comments!

Offer Linky

HT: SBS

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…)

Q2 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 award code listed in the above link. 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 Q2’s valid destinations, origination is allowed from any US48 City.
Open-jaws are permitted
(Note: Some agents will also allow you to originate from any listed city and fly to any US48 city for the discounted rate)
-NYC/LGA
-Washington DC/IAD
-Cleveland
-Atlanta
-Houston/IAH
-Santa Barbara, CA

Update: The terms seem to exclude US residents…as to why this shows up on the US version of Continental.com is anyone’s guess…

Effective today Continental has brought back the 500 mile bonus when you buy tickets directly from Continental.com!

Offer Linky

The offer is valid for tickets bought between 03/29/09 and 12/31/09.

Only the first traveler listed on the reservation will earn the bonus, so if you have multiple travelers you may want to book everyone separately so that they can each earn the bonus miles…

So which airline will be the first to match?

Offer Registration Linky (Exp: 03/31)

AA is having a triple miles promo for travel on nonstop flights between Boston and Los Angeles, San Francisco, or San Diego.

Offer Linky

Miles earned for non-elites, for a RT flight, Boston to/from:
-Los Angeles: 15,666
-San Francisco: 16,224
-San Diego: 15,528
Of course Gold elites will also earn their 25% mileage bonus, and Platinum/EXP elites will earn their 100% mileage bonus.

Of course if you are going to do some “mileage running” to/from Boston and are not yet elite signing up for an Elite ChAAlenge would probably be worthwhile.

Rules:
-Book your trip between March 2, 2009 and May 31, 2009
-Register before your trip using promotion code BOS3X
-Fly between March 2, 2009 and May 31, 2009

Continental has spelled out their new reduced award ticket fees…if only all the other carriers would follow!

For award tickets booked beginning 02/19 the award date change is reduced from $150 to:

-Free for changes made 21 or more days in advance of booked award travel.

-$75 for changes made within 21 days of booked award travel.

A unique aspect of the new policy is that this even applies to changes made to the carriers and connecting flights as long as the origin and destination cities remain the same.  Continental is the only airline that lets you change the carrier for free and only Continental and AA allow you to change connecting flights for free.

For those of you keeping score at home, here is a roundup of the award ticket change policies of the legacy US carriers:

Offer Linky

Valid for travel between 02/11 and 05/14 to/from the US48 and:
-Amsterdam
-Brussels
-Frankfurt
-Geneva
-London
-Moscow
-Munich
-Paris
-Rome
-Zurich

Offer Registration Linky

Delta recently slashed fares at their Cincinnati hub and is now offering bonus miles to back up the new pricing scheme.

Bonus miles offer:
-3,000 miles for the first round-trip flight
-3,000 miles for the second round-trip flight
-4,000 miles for the third round-trip flight
-5,000 miles for the fourth round-trip flight
-10,000 miles for the fifth round-trip flight

Valid for flight roundtrip nonstop flights between 02/12/09 and 05/12/09 to/from Cincinnati and
-Atlanta
-Baltimore
-Charlotte
-Dallas/DFW
-Denver
-Kansas City
-Los Angeles/LAX
-New York/LGA
-Newark/EWR
-Philadelphia
-Phoenix
-San Diego
-San Francisco
-Seattle
-Washington/DCA

If you’ve got a few thousand United miles from a flight-dont let them expire-get a free newspaper subscription!

For example a 1 year subscription to the LA Times in the LA metro area will set you back just 2,600 miles!

Offer Linky

Update: Flying Blue has extended this promotion for the same cities listed below from 02/28/09 to 03/31/09!

Originally posted on 01/01/09:

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…

AMEX Gold Charge Card Linky (Free for first year, Earn 10,000 AMEX MR Bonus Points after you spend $500.) 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.

That is all you will need to have to get to Israel or any other “European” destination in January or February!

S.B.S. previously made an excellent 8 page PDF examining every way of getting to Israel via Starpoints.

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)

For January/February there is a promo award to/from many cities in North America and Europe Zones 1, 2, or 3.

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: 22,500 miles one-way, 45,000 miles round trip.

Tickets must be booked by 02/26/09, and all travel must be completed by 02/28/09.

Valid North American cities for origin or destination:
Atlanta
Chicago
Dallas
Detroit
Houston (Coach promo award only)
Montreal
NYC/JFK
Toronto
Vancouver
Washington DC

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. that 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 90,000 flying blue miles in business.)

Flying Blue Promo Award: January/February 2008

Unfortunately, you cannot search online for mileage availability on Flying Blue unless you have the required miles in your account.

A stopover in Amsterdam 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

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Step 1: Enroll

Step 2: Register for the promo by entering your new AA number and promo code: MCR09

Existing AA member? Feel free to register and see if anything comes of it in 6-8 weeks…

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Limit of 5 sets of 2 luggage tags per member.

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Earn 2,000 miles for enrolling and an additional 5,000 miles when you fly for the first time before 12/31/09.

Caveat: You must have an address listed on your Continental account from the “Mid Pacific, South Pacific, China or South Asia.”

Effective 03/01/09 Citi will be devaluing their thank you points drastically.

Up until this point they offered a fixed-point redemption option allowing points to be worth up to 2 cents each when redeemed for coach or up to 3 cents per point for business class.

On March 1st Citi’s thank you points will be capped at just a penny apiece with the elimination of the fixed-point option.

The WSJ has the scoop…

Seems to be getting harder and harder to find any cards that offer a better bang for your buck than the Starwood AMEX…

From the January 2009 Continental magazine:

Sign in at Continental.com, go to “My Account”, and select “Email subscriptions” on the manage profile page.

Offer valid for new subscribers who are residents of the 50 United States.  Must subscribe by 01/31/09 and remain subscribed for 60 days to receive bonus miles.

Update 2: LAN apparently jumped the gun and took down the 5,000 kilometer bonus this morning.  However thanks to Google’s cache of the old promo page you can still signup under the promo that was supposed to run through today!

Update: The 5,000 Free LAN Kms. promo ends today!!!

Originally posted on 12/31/07:

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Confirmed: Starwood Nights & Flights Works With LAN! (09/09/07)

Everything You’ve Ever Wanted To Know About Getting To Israel With Starpoints! (12/20/07)

Related Links:

Starwood AMEX Linky

LAN Award Chart Linky

LAN OneWorld Award Chart Linky

You can transfer 20,000 Starpoints into 50,000 LAN Kilometers!

LAN has some absolutely incredible deals to places like Brazil (A $1,000+ coach ticket for under 20,000 Starpoints!) and Israel.

They also have a top-of-the-line new business class that requires less than 40,000 Starpoints to get to Brazil (Normally $6,000+)

Even classier is that they don’t charge any ridiculous expedite fees, and they allow free online date changes to LAN award tickets.

5,000 Kilometer Signup Bonus Linky (Exp:12/31/08)

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