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Old Nov 22, 2002 | 2:55 am
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Marathon Man
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Hi and welcome.
Yes, you cannot really 'combine' two frequent flier programs (FFP's) without losing a lot in the transalation in most cases.

You can soon see what may be doable with partners like United as said above but I think USAIR/UAL code shares are not yet fully in place so we have to wait on that one.

If, however, we are to assume that you are trying to "consolodate," meaning you are trying to make it so you have less programs to deal with and use only one airline FFP, then you may wish to do something like this:

For USAIR, you could do some things to 'shore up' that 19k and get a free RT ticket out of it, and then be done with them if you wish. Then you can concentrate on the DL account, which seems to be the main carrier for you.

In here you will learn tons of things but for starters, if this is indeed part of your possible plan, try using IDINE to get the extra miles needed to get a free ticket on USAIR and I think these awards are still only 20k.

Idine lets you asign any credit card or debit card (miles-earning or not) to its free service and then when you go eat in many of the listed restuarants and bars in its program, you get 10 miles per dollar spent. Go spend $100 with friends at dinner and you'll have 1000 miles. Now you'll have 20k on USAIR, you'd take a free trip and then work the Delta account in similar ways, and then some.

Good luck!


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