My apologies to Pudding Guy for poaching his title.

Here's the deal: we all have some long-distance plan for our phone calls. MCI is running a 10,000 BA mile promo. Sign up, get 10,000 miles (1000 miles a month).

Not a bad plan - $ 2.95/mo and all long distance is 5 cents a minute to any state including Hawaii and Alaska.

OK - that's 10K. How about the rest? Well, we've all got a household account, right? And I've got two lines in my house (phone and fax) - so, there's 20K. The rest of my family (my daughter and her husband live up stairs, and they've got two lines, too) - another 20K miles. I'm already up to 40K in the household account and it only has four members. After July 1, I'll be able to add three more of the people who live here.

How to do it.

1. Don't have MCI - call 1-800-204-2688. They'll walk you through the whole thing. Have your BAEC number handy.

2. Already have MCI? Call customer service at 1-888-212-3091. Tell them to cancel the current plan and give you the 10K BA bonus of you'll switch to Sprint (this was the advice from the MCI guy). They want you - they'll do it.

It's going to be pretty tough to get miles on BA by flying, but these deals seem to keep coming.