Originally Posted by Marathon Man
Hence, if I could give my 2,341 Singapore miles, my 4,024 us air miles, my 301 continental miles, etc... Then I may be more inclined to give say, 25,000 or 50,000 or 75k AA or NWA miles so that a person or two may be able to fly in to find family or out to get safety and medicine!
aid should be set up in terms of the aid GIVER and the ultimate receiver...
US & UA & DL allow exact-number-of-miles donations to selected charities: a 1K or 5K
minimum but no nasty increments
. The idea is that all the small odd amounts are put into each charity's FF account, from which tickets can be issued. The Red Cross intends to use miles to fly aid workers over there.
The best I've seen so far:
http://www.qantas.com.au/regions/dyn...004/dec04/3196