There are only about two weeks left before the WebMiles Million Miles Mania Contest closes on September 1. If you haven't heard, they're going to give away a million WebMiles to the person (or people) who submit the most entertaining plans for spending anywhere from 25,000 to 1,000,000 miles. The flights can be on any commercial airlines. I'm serving as the judge to pick the winners. See http://www.webmiles.com/contests.html for all the details.

They've put together a cool mileage rewards chart for purposes of the contest that's begging from creative use by you. For example, the round the world award allows for up to 6 stops anywhere in the world served by commercial airlines. Think of the possibilities�

I'm hopeful we'll get some really fun entries, but I expect most people won't but forth much thought or effort. Therefore, your odds should be pretty good. This is your chance to earn a million miles without going through security in Bogota or buying 10-year's worth of Healthy Choice products.

Not open to Canadians

Not open to Australians.

Indded, do the people who set up these promos realise 20%+ of the FT boarders do NOT reside in USA?

Not open to residents of Arizona either.

What did they do to deserve that?

FWIW, PG has already sugested entering as a "team" to obtain eligibility! From his follow up to my original post regarding the contest:

"In the meantime, should you want to participate in the current Million Mile Mania contest, we encourage you to work in conjunction with a friend or relative who lives outside the state by having that person inlcude the you in their 'flight plan'."
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum1/HTML/003110.html

BTW- I might be available as a "teammate" if you lean on me a bit! One of the advantages of livin' in "Gerzee!"

With the Canadians and Australians and Arizonan's out of the running, the few of you who live in one of the other 49 states should have a pretty good shot at it.

I don't think there's been a huge number of entries thus far. I'm expecting many people are working on their plans and will submit them close to the deadline. But I want to make sure all eligible FlyerTalkers get their chance.

Thanks for the reminder, Pudding Guy. Might as well give it a shot.

How come "Round the World" is only from US - US? You talked about including non-US-ians in the trip, but going around the world can cost up to double (or more!) the "Round the World" cost for these poor non Americans!

Why is that!?

Well PG, I sent in an entry. It's not clever or funny but heartwarming (and classified.)

If I win I will tell all of you. and I'll ahve a nice story for where I work and for PINKONLINE.com

I sent in my entry too. It's actually continuation of a quest already in progress. I'm just hoping that webmiles will be happy to bankroll part of my quest -- otherwise, just more stops at BestFare finder for those hidden fare wars to odd destinations!

Kunoichi, Austalians could just tack on a 70k Australia-USA RT before starting a RTW trip. Sure, it'd be 250k this way, but it's not like you're spending your own miles here. All friends outside the US could use this approach for hooking up a RTW.

Well, that's cool... but to get home again, that would be another 70,000 at the end, right? So that would be 140,000 + 180,000, because 'Round the World' must start and end in the US. So I can't bail out if Australia is the last port of call before the US, according to that?

Aus - Round the World - Aus = 320,000?

All the WebMiles awards are round trip, so it's 70k miles for AUS-USA-AUS. So RTW (and then some) starting in AUS would be 250k miles. If you want to make AUS the last stop on your RTW, I don't see who's going to stop you from bailing out there...

Excellent. Thanks for clearing that up! ^_^

(I tried looking on that page to see if it was round trip, but I didn't notice anything near the table that said that. But, maybe it's in all the text that I skimmed through and didn't see it...)

[This message has been edited by Kunoichi (edited 08-15-2000).]

Ho 'dere Bampaku Guy! <secret Japan thing - don't y'all worry yourselves about it>

I refrained from submitting my idea of flying to London every month for the same dates to take a picture of Big Ben's shadow at 3:00 PM so that I could then be shown a picture of Big Ben's shadow (at 3) and know what month the picture was taken, not so much because I blabbed about my plan in the chat room as thus DQ'd myself, nor because I live overseas and wouldn't qualify, but because I realized that, what with all the fog and rain, my odds of seeing the shadow as scheduled would be 'bout the same's my having tea & crumpets with Dame Edna.

But good luck to the rest o' ya!

-KP