Originally Posted by awax
Also are these adds for "I tell you how to get elite status and 50,000 miles in one flight" just the scams they sound like they are?
A few FTers, experienced with thousands of posts already answered you, so please do not expect a lot more from me. My input is even less than 2c worth
First,
read carefully this
Thread
Second,
semantic trick
50K miles for
'nothing' ? It depends how you read it... 50K AA miles for just 340K Hilton Honors or 125K Marriott Rewards or 250K Priorirt Club or .., so if you already have the hotel points, you just have to convert them and you do not have to pay anything. I.e. you get 50K AA miles for nothing.
know how
Your company needs you almost on the other side of the planet and it's placing (and paying) you in business/first class to go there... well, a carefull planning of routes involving the ones where there's a bonus promotion going on (for details refer to the FT or
aa) and perhaps you place on top a Platinum challenge and you get a mile shower... for free. Basically someone else is paying for it and you maximize your return; you could end with 12K miles or with a lot more. How much? It depends from the time, your residence, the booking class (someone could even add the size of left shoe), so last month perhaps you could have obtained a grand total 40K but next one only ... who knows ? An example: a Biz fare ZRH-JFK R/T in May 2006 gave 10K bonus miles for European resident but now it's gone and the only thing on that route is a low 5K for a full economy R/T but only for N.American residents.
Third,
50K AA miles for really nothing... yes, with
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