Frontier Airlines EarlyReturns - What to do with a few thousand miles?

What shall I do with the few thousand Frontier miles I have? Can I redeem them for miles somewhere?

Thanks!

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by SkyTeam777:
What shall I do with the few thousand Frontier miles I have? Can I redeem them for miles somewhere?</font>
With only a couple exceptions (AA and UA are the only ones I know of), airline miles cannot be moved from one airline program into other airline programs. (AA and UA cannot even be moved into other airline programs DIRECTLY, but 50k miles a year of each can be moved into Diners Club if you have one, and then later moved to most any other program from there, with most airlines losing about 50% of their value in the transfer process.)

There are other things you can use Early Returns miles for, which you can see by logging into your Early Returns at www.frontierairlines.com (http://www.frontierairlines.com) and then looking through the Partners. But you'll need 7500 miles minimum to turn it into a car rental award, and the only thing I see that you can get with less (which would require you to go to Colorado again, which unless you did it on another airline would mean you'd have more Early Returns miles to unload after that!) is:

"Redeem 2,500 EarlyReturns miles for an adult ski lift ticket at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, or Keystone resorts."

You can REDEEM Early Returns miles on Midwest or Virgin Atlantic, but only once you have enough miles (tens of thousands of them) for an award. So if you only a "few thousand" that would seem to be out of the picture.

Btw, just in case you're close to 5000 miles: The no-annual-fee Frontier Airlines MasterCard gives you 2500 miles just for signing up, then up to 5000 miles with a balance transfer (with something like a min $3, max $50 transaction fee for a balance transfer) and/or more miles with purchases. If you're close to 5000 miles, you could do that just enough to get to the 7500 mile level and then redeem for a 2-day Compact car rental at Alamo, National, or Payless. If you did it using only purchases, it wouldn't cost you anything (except for the miles you wouldn't get somewhere else from making those purchases on another card).

Whoops, lift ticket redemption was already posted. But, it is a great deal.

[This message has been edited by Richn (edited Dec 11, 2003).]

I'm a big fan of the lift ticket deal.
I've snowboarded for free last season on my points alone.

Wow didn't know about the lift ticket rewards...great idea...as a poor CU-Boulder student with some F9 points who can't really afford Colorado skiing areas...its perfect!

N674UW

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by N674UW:
Wow didn't know about the lift ticket rewards...great idea...as a poor CU-Boulder student with some F9 points who can't really afford Colorado skiing areas...its perfect!

N674UW</font>

No blackout dates either.
I racked up a whole bunch of miles visiting my GF when she went to CU Boulder.

Quick and dirty explanation:
1) Sign up for a Vail Resorts Peaks Program pass. I can refer you if you'd like (just email me). This gets you a couple thousand Peaks Pts.
2) At the resort, stop by and let them make you a photo-ID as well as link a credit card to your Peaks ID. This nets you another 3000 pts.
3) All meals at the resort charged to your card &gt; $50 nets you 500pts.
4) Lessons get you pts as well.
5) Transferring 2500 F9 FFmiles to the peaks program nets you 10K pts. 10Kpts = free lift ticket. You have to call Frontier to initiate the transfer and typically it is manually done by a supervisor.

I don't remember how much you got on signup but I do remember this netted me another free lift ticket when I was done.

Regards,
-g

Anyone know of a way to get a quick 500 Frontier miles?

oops, double post!

[This message has been edited by SkyTeam777 (edited Jan 15, 2004).]