I used to do a great deal of travel for work when I was producing events almost every weekend. Since then I don’t fly nearly as much as I used to, sometimes I miss it but now that I have a wife and 2 daughters I prefer staying home. My airline of choice is American Airlines though I flew all different airlines which means I was accruing miles on all those random airlines. Now, I’m a sucker for a loyalty program and I hate to lose the milage I have earned. So what do you do if you haven’t flown on an airline for many years but don’t want to lose those precious miles. I have been able to keep mine by doing 2 things.
Whenever I rent a car or stay in a hotel I push the points that I get to an airline who’s miles will expire soon. For example I stayed in some random hotel while on vacation in Utah this summer (btw, one of the most beautiful places in the world) and had my miles pushed to United Airlines which I rarely fly but have a great deal of miles on.
Another trick to keep your hard earned miles is to shop online. What am I talking about you ask??? Almost all the different major airlines have an online mall. Meaning you can click thorough the airlines website to shop on many major and some minor web stores. I have many times shopped at Target and Staples to keep my miles active.
Anyways, I hope this is just my first installment in my travel tips.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Peter Rad // Jan 25, 2010 at 11:09 am
How do you shop at Staples or Target to get miles? Do you have to log in through a rewards protal first?
2 Jeb Brilliant // Jan 25, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Hi Peter,
What you have to do is just go to the airline specific shopping mall site, log in and walla. American Airlines shopping site is https://www.aadvantageeshopping.com/. If you visit that site you just log in and start shopping.
Thanks for reading my blog,
Jeb
3 Texrat // Jan 25, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Thanks Jeb!
I have been using Tom Thumb grocery’s program to keep AA account current, typically adding over 500 miles per month just from grocery purchases. But next month their program ends. : (
4 Jeb Brilliant // Jan 25, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Hi Randall,
Thanks so much for reading my blog. I will suggest that if you are a big fan of AA then you may want to consider a credit card that gives you miles. There are 2 really good cards for AA. The American Airlines card itself from Citi Band as well as the Starwood Amex. I’ll write about the Starwood in the future but it lets you put your miles to any airline not just AA.
If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask and by the way, Maemo and the N900 are amazing. It’s the closest thing to a laptop I’ve ever seen in this size.
Cheers,
Jeb
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