Hi I am a lurker getting up my nerve to talk so please have patience...I have been reading the posts for quite a while you guys sure sound like experts. I would like to know which airline has the best FC service to LHR from JFK or BOS. I travel for leisure only and all on my own dollar,so I cant get million miler status I would like to start accumulating miles now to get the tickets for my 50th birthday present. The cc has some ideas which program is easiest to get miles besides from actual flying, should I start buying miles from the airline to accumulate, buy from EBAY , the company programss where you can buy milage awards for your employees, can I combine all of these on my way? What about milage banks I thought that was illegal. I have milesss with united, delta, american,and sw. Since I have to pay full price I usually go with the best price so each account has less than 20k I also have a bunch of coupons for rental car upgrades and free days, do people actually want these little things I usually throw them out. I would like to try a milage run but need dummy instructions. Any advice will be appreciated, I will be briefer next time

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