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Originally Posted by Cavill
Thanks everyone! This is very helpful! I'll take a look at the recommendations but the AA credit card sounds like it might save us a lot of money and the AA challenge seems like it might get us to a status faster since it's such a short hurts of traveling.
To clarify a few things:
1. We will each be making about 6-7 trips personally. Thus, if there are any programs that let you combine that would be better. We can make all major purchases on a single credit card.
2. This year, outside of these trips, we will probably each fly 2-3 different places (e.g, Colorado, Florida, England).
British Airways' frequent-flyer program offers "Household" accounts, that allow pooling of miles earned by more than one member. BA miles are very good for nonstop award travel on AA within the Americas, and BA does
not charge a close-in award booking fee that most U.S. programs charge their non-elite members. But BA is a poor program to use for
redemptions between the U.S. and Europe because of the high fuel surcharges that BA assesses on TATL travel on any carrier. (The one exception is redemptions on EI between the U.S. and Ireland.)
All of that said, there's little need to pool your miles if you are going to be flying AA or UA primarily. Each of those programs offers one-way awards.