Originally Posted by
nursechristy
Hello everyone, I am fairly new to the site. You all seem to have such experience at this I can hardly keep up! Its amazing how you all are on top of the many ways to earn miles. I am signing up for the various airlines, but wanted to ask everyones opinion. Which of the miles programs if the best to use to accumulate your miles in through the earning sites? For instance when I start signing up for the survey sites, points for buying, etc., they seem to be associated with different airlines. I am trying to decide which one to concentrate all my "rewards" into. I will be doing next to zero flying for business, it will all be family/fun/vacation/getaway flying. I do have mypoints which I have been saving for awhile, so it has alot of points right now, and I have a Delta with a little over 1000 miles in it. I am trying to get the most benefit from whichever one I decide to use. Any opions or advice are welcome!
Thanks for your help!
If you give us more information (e.g., where you live, where you would like to go with your miles, how much you spend on credit cards, which airlines you use), you will get better responses. People have wildly different preferences depending on miles actually flown, personal taste for aircraft, destinations desired, etc.
That said, I have personally found US Airways to be the easiest to accumulate miles from credit cards (at the moment there are 2 different banks offering cards), and United the easiest to redeem miles for trips.