It all depends on what you consider "easy". For example, do you stay in hotels often? With NWA's just-started (through May 15 I think) Mileage Maximizer (you ramp up to getting triple the normal miles from a hotel stay starting with your 4th stay, after registering), and staying at 500-mile hotels, and making sure you change hotels every night (so every night is a stay!), you'd be racking up 1500 miles per night, and so with just ten nights you'd already have almost 15k! For me (since I have to stay at hotels twice a week), that's quite easy, but obviously for someone who rarely stays in hotels it's far from easy.

Then there's an offer (mention code #2677 after calling 1-800-360-2900) for getting 15000 bonus miles and first year's annual fee waived for signing up for the NWA World Perks Visa over the phone (I THINK that's still valid, but it's been several months since I did mine). When I did mine they accidentally charged me the annual fee and I had to call to get it reversed, but other than that it was the easiest and cheapest 15k miles I've earned yet (since I didn't join BA's FF program in time for that promo a year ago where you could get 20k miles just by test driving a Jaguar!).

Such offers come and go and come and go, so I'm not sure how easy it is to generalize, but NWA certainly does seem to have a good deal of them over the course of the year (some better than others depending on your specific situation, since different promos require you do to different things for the bonus miles).


[This message has been edited by Stefan Daystrom (edited Feb 24, 2004).]