MilesBuzz! - Earning miles on flights you buy for other people?

Is this possible? I buy about $4000 in flights a year for musicians to fly in to play for our parties and was wondering if I can earn those miles. I asked AA, I think, once and they said no.

I know on Delta you can set up a Skybonus account. You get points for purchases above the miles that the person gets for flying. My student workers need me to buy their tickets since they have no credit cards and I have received the points good toward later goodies.

JudyJFLA

Most of the airlines have a corporate booking system that earn points and miles for tickets the company buys. AA has this for sure. The individual flyer also gets frequent flier miles.

Other than that you can get a miles earning credit card. Using AA, for example, you can go to their shopping portal and buy a giftcertificate.com certificate. You earn 4 miles per dollar spent plus the miles from the credit card. You then turn the giftcertificate.com certificate into AA gift cards. Then use the gift cards to puchase the flights.

This is about the extent that you can earn miles for flights you do not fly since the frequent flier programs are set up to reward those that FLY. The other thought is that if you are flying the same person over and over again, they can earn the miles and then you can require them to use the miles for company/organization use. I would not suggest you do this unless the person agrees.

Is this possible? I buy about $4000 in flights a year for musicians to fly in to play for our parties and was wondering if I can earn those miles. I asked AA, I think, once and they said no.

Check out the Citi PremierePass elite card. It gives you "flight points" for tickets you buy on behalf of other people, a pretty hot deal. The only weakness of the program is that you have to match the "flight points" with "purchasing points" that you earn by buying stuff. Still, you effectively end up with a 50% discount for awards flights, and regular FF miles can be earned by you or others on top of Citi's contribution. On paper, not a bad deal.

-KF

Use the Business Extraa program. It's amazing how many AA employees don't even understand this program.

http://www.businessextraa.com/

I already have an ExtrAA account but the rewards are not very substantial. At least we don't spend enough to make it really worthwhile.

I like myfrogger and kennethfine's advise. That could certainly save us some money.

Thanks all.

Other than that you can get a miles earning credit card. Using AA, for example, you can go to their shopping portal and buy a giftcertificate.com certificate. You earn 4 miles per dollar spent plus the miles from the credit card. You then turn the giftcertificate.com certificate into AA gift cards. Then use the gift cards to puchase the flights.
https://www.aadvantageeshopping.com/goshopping.jsp?mrc=87&afsrc=1

Now it's only 2 miles per dollar. Still a good deal though.