I've come, I've read, I've grown overwhelmed.

I used to be super frequent with TWA. Always upgraded, joined the airport club, got miles every time I flushed a commode. I lived high on the hog. But then I stopped traveling so much, lost my stature with TWA (and then lost TWA all together), and I'm a decade off my peak and I have a bunch of raggedy miles tucked here and there and it's just all a mess. My milesmanship is in tatters. I desperately need a frequent flyer makeover.

Can you guys help? If you can't make me one of you, at least maybe you can stop the bleeding. Here are my current stats.


American Airlines

Citibank mastercard gives me miles

Summary Date:
Jul 2004

Program to Date Miles:
338,961

YTD Elite Qualifying Points:
10,118

YTD Elite Qualifying Miles:
13,490

YTD Gold / Platinum Qualifying Segments:
2

Miles with Expiration Deferred Through 6/04/07:
88,289

Upgrade Account Balance:
0

Total Available Award Mileage +
88,289



United

When I last checked, I had 9866 miles that "wouldn't expire". But now I see I have zero. I guess they expired.



TWA

I had 7816 miles on TWA. I'm not sure I ever rolled them into AA. I guess they're lost.


Also:
I've had a bunch of hotel and car rentals over past 8 years that I forgot to get credit for. And I don't keep good records. Shall I forget about them?

And my company pays several thousands of dollars per month to various vendors via our checking account debit/credit card. I'm trying to visualize how I can channel that into frequent flier mileage. the problem is that the company uses a small local bank that has no frequent flier tie-ins, and it'd be a pain to switch banks (though not unthinkable, I'd rather not if I can help it).

So what are my first few steps to get back into form?


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