ha- well, yes i am a new poster! and i was in brevity mode since i was on my ipad when i posted thanks for the welcomes by the way.

My personal setup in more detail is-- I use miles for RT F or J travel. I do JFK-LAX about 8-10x per year on United PS (which is the only way to fly domestic long-haul btw)-- that ticket is $5200 retail RT and there's basically no way to get it cheaper. So what I do is use Amex points and covert to Air Canada or I buy USAIR points. J is 40k Air Canada Aeroplan and F is 50k USAIR is an excellent path into United PS F...

But can we think of some more?

What about finding car rental pricing errors where you can do multiple cars out at a time and leave them in the lot for a day and buy miles that way?

or something less onerous like another trackitback we find.

Per your suggestion, here's my working list.

1. Trackitback promotions as they come- amazing but must find
2. Opening online accounts (hard to replicate)
3. SuperPunkte (foreign and hard to manage/not get scammed)
4. USAIR- runs lots of great promotions to lower cost to 1-1.5c/mile
5. CC signup bonus- game requires time and effort, not amazing
6. Mint Coins- limits imposed and physical transpo lower benefit
7. Car Rental- How do we play this one best?
8. BankDirect bankdeposits. Not amazing as CD pays more interest but still of note.
9. There must be more. I'm having a hard time searching/locating

Okay, I welcome any comments. Maybe we can create a master strategy post.

I love FT.

Nick