For example, I put my Dad's account on my daughter's new starwood card (secondary to my husband's card - she already has with mine)so that during the double bonus promo with starwoods charges will go to that account, and my father's AA FF account will be rounded to 10K. He had about 8K and won't be flying much at 92. IDine has been ideal in rounding it off. So the last IDine restaurant gave 40 points per $,and as soon as it credited to his IDine account, I cancelled that card and entered the card to my daughter's iDine account. As soon as AA gets the miles, I will transfer the 10K to a DC award and put it in my DC account to transfer to BA. This is how I found out that they allow six cards - in the past they have allowed 4, but I thought that was an exception. The only problem with flip-flopping so often is keeping track of where the miles are suppose to go. What is the reason that you want to flip flop so frequently? Maybe there is another solution to the problem. If it is because you don't have enough credit cards - if one of them is AMEX, you could get a secondary card in your own name (claiming one is for business expenses and one is for personal use), then each could be with a different airline program. You could have one card with your middle initial and one without.

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Ms.DtG

[This message has been edited by dgordon (edited 07-06-2003).]