Award Miles Without Flying?
Jul 26, 2016, 6:45 am
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Award Miles Without Flying?
The answer I am pretty sure is "No!" but I have to ask.
Is there any way of earning LEVEL miles without flying or without having the Amex card?
I have 419 miles to go to platinum and due to some rookie error by me, a recent TATL J flight was not able to be credited to my FB account.
I would get the Amex card but I can't because I live in the UK
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Thanks folks.
Is there any way of earning LEVEL miles without flying or without having the Amex card?
I have 419 miles to go to platinum and due to some rookie error by me, a recent TATL J flight was not able to be credited to my FB account.
I would get the Amex card but I can't because I live in the UK
.Thanks folks.
Last edited by Lewis42; Jul 26, 2016 at 4:35 pm Reason: I foolishly stated Award miles when I meant Level miles
Jul 26, 2016, 7:25 am
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Award or level miles ?
You can get Award miles with https://www.opinionrewardsclub.co.uk or with hotel booked on booking.com for example.
For elite miles there's no other way than flying or spend € on AF/KLM with the amex card.
You can get Award miles with https://www.opinionrewardsclub.co.uk or with hotel booked on booking.com for example.
For elite miles there's no other way than flying or spend € on AF/KLM with the amex card.
Jul 26, 2016, 7:37 am
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OP needs definitely level (status) miles and not award miles (which he will get anyway). So, as Mirk said, only Skyteam flying or AF Amex spendings (AF/KL purchases only) will bring status miles.
@OP : We are only in July, so making a cheap round trip in Europe before the end of the year seems an easy thing to do.
@OP : We are only in July, so making a cheap round trip in Europe before the end of the year seems an easy thing to do.
Jul 26, 2016, 10:25 am
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I'm in the UK too, you can look for cheap day trip to AMS (starting at 90Ł from BHX on saturdays) -> 376 qualifying miles or some 4 segments to the cheapest place you will find via google flight (can be as low as 120Ł) -> 752 qualifying miles.
Jul 26, 2016, 4:37 pm
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Thanks guys.
I edited my post, I meant level miles. I spent so much time worrying about which miles to write I ended up writing the wrong one!
I will almost certainly have another J TATL flight within the next month or two so I'll get the miles but I wanted the extra 25% award miles.
Oh well. Sucks to be me.
I edited my post, I meant level miles. I spent so much time worrying about which miles to write I ended up writing the wrong one!
I will almost certainly have another J TATL flight within the next month or two so I'll get the miles but I wanted the extra 25% award miles.
Oh well. Sucks to be me.
Jul 27, 2016, 10:53 pm
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