Originally Posted by
jackal
OK, I'm sorry for the OT post here, but I have to know: where do you people get these AGR points? I can't figure it out.
AGR doesn't participate in enough special promos (i.e. phone company partnerships and the like) t
I know I'm not the biggest account holder on this board, but they do participate in promos. I got, for example, 10K points for signing up for 2 months of Earthlink dialup.
And with the end of the MBNA/BofA AGR credit card, that won't be an option in the future, and with the $1=1 mile rate of a credit card (or whatever it was, even if it was $1=2 miles), you can't really rack up THAT many miles unless you're a REALLY heavy spender.
They are going to release a new card--they've already said that. And 1 mile-1 point is sort of standard.
And now that you can't transfer CO miles or whatever into or out of AGR, the options for earning AGR miles are really limited.
That's news to me. Midwest and Continental both offer bidirectional transfers. Starwood offers transfers of Starpoints in to AGR.
I'm not quite sure I understand what you're driving at. There are plenty of ways to earn AGR points. The one thing lacking--perhaps--are hefty credit card signup bonuses. But, then again, the Midwest, Continental, and Starwood transfer options reduce the impact of that.
Furthermore, points from Amtrak earning add up quickly for regular users of the Acela Express between 'select city pairs'. Plus there are sometimes double or triple point promos.