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Old Apr 17, 2007 | 2:01 pm
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BobH
 
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Originally Posted by MikesMiles
I have 33K+ orphan miles and can't seem to be able to find a single use for them. NWA doesn't fly any of the routes that I routinely fly, and their codeshare partners require Sat stayovers, which I rarely do. Also, I'm not interested in adding another credit card just to bump up the miles. Are there any tricks out there to transfer them out?
If you don't want to use or convert them, you could give them to charity --- no tax deduction though --- because they have no real value etc.

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