Originally Posted by
jjbiv
Flew this week and paid attention to when my miles posted because of this thread. I think the miles post as soon as they close the flight. I had my miles in my account before we physically left the gate in ATL.
Yeah, I've now started watching for the miles and they seem to post instantaneously.
Of course, beginning January1, the issue becomes somewhat moot for me because of instead getting something like 1000 miles per flight, I think I'll get 29.
But I am now trying to collect enough miles for 2 Caribbean award tickets before the program goes kaboom. With more limited transcon options, there's little value in the program for me except int'l tickets as I don't need "free" tickets to replace $29 tickets. I've even asked a couple of family members who are flying Frontier before New Years to enroll in their otherwise worthless frequent flyer program so I can add them to my pool and pad my account by a couple of thousand miles.