Originally Posted by wayne186

Hi,

I have a couple of airlines that I use (mainly forced by flight schedule and airport preference - BWI). I now have Oneworld (for BA), Star Alliance (for Virgin Atlantic) but now I am finding myself having to use Delta as they are the only ones (along with AirTran) who provide a non-stop flight from Baltimore to Atlanta. I can not find any programs that they join up with and I am also going to have to start using a car rental company and a hotel every week. For the next 30 weeks I am going to be travelling to Atlanta from home for 5 days a week and I want to maximize my miles awards.

Does anybody have any idea how I can merge all of the miles I have collected so far and keep building on them with Delta, a car rental company and a hotel chain (there is a Country Hotel & suites close and economic to where I will be working)? Normally I stay in a Hilton which is fine because I can put that on Star Alliance but I do not think this hotel will be convenient and I need to watch costs. Regardless of mileage incentive I want to keep costs down.

This whole airmiles thing just consumes way too much time and I need some help to streamline especially since I am about to embark on a lot of travel and expenditure.

Current programs enrolled in:

AmericaWest (USAirways)
British Airways (OneWorld)
Singapore Airlines (Star Alliance)
Delta Airlines (No group as far as I am aware)

Can I take the amounts of miles from all four of these in some program and merge them together. I do not care about upgrades to silver, gold and all that because I always seem to just miss the boat - last year I missed BA upgrade by a mere 20 points!!

thanks

Wayne