tom911

The TalkBoard is working on an Ambassador program if you're interested in that.

resnick

Moving back to the original topic....

It won't get any more BIS miles if people do what I just did, which is to succumb to the rumor in this thread and transfer over a big bunch of Diners Club points (with the 25% bonus promotion that they're running until the end of the month) to make the 2MM. I'm sure AA get some money out of DC for those points, but I'm not convinced it's worth it to AA for me to have even more miles.

uxb

After reading this post, I'm now concerned. I have 750k in my primary AA account and 70k in another AA account. After reading this all: 1. does AA combine programme miles of both accounts, and 2. should I combine these accounts and push for 1MM?



Thoughts and suggestions greatly appreciated.

bdemaria

How do you have two AAdvantage accounts?

Keith Flyer Maven

is there any reason to keep them separate even w/o regard to this thread?

yes, combine them.

Efrem

You shouldn't have two accounts. It sometimes happens by mistake. As one possible example, it can happen if you get an AA affinity credit card and forget to enter your existing AA number in the application. They'll open a new account for you.

Since this happens often enough, AA is quite familiar with what they have to do to merge the accounts. There is no upside to keeping both of them. You should merge them even without 1MM considerations. You have to ask, though. They don't assume that two accounts with the same name, or even the same name and address, necessarily belong to the same person. (Lots of Jr./Sr. pairs live in the same home and don't always use their suffixes.)

(There might be one situation where it's good to have two accounts. If you're thinking of doing anything against program rules, and are afraid you might get caught and have your account closed, you might get to keep the other one. I assume that's not the case here, though.)

gemac

UneXploded Bombs are very unpredictable.

uxb

I have my primary account which is from 1999. I opened that when I was a kid and started to earn airline miles through Opinion Place. Today, I use it for everything from Citibank AAdvantage Debit Card, Credit Card and Corporate Card to my regular AA travel and the AAdvantage EShopping portal (*groans*). The second account came in when I took over my mum's finances. I opened a new Citigold account and didn't link it with my current account. No link = a separate card for her to use + a new AA number.

I keep them separate to earn points on her transactions and mine without the incovenience of having to give her my card.

I am not doing anything illegal with the accounts. I use it as an emergency redemption. This past year I had to fly to CVG for a funeral, and the year before I had to fly back to NYC for the same reason (different person... or so you would hope... ). I know each member should only have one account, so that in itself is against programme rules. However, what is spooking me out is the speculation that 1MM/2MM may end. I would really like to know if I should combine, and if AA combines PTD miles.

On a side note, if I had joined FT in 2001 when I started travelling extensively, then I wouldn't be worrying about this in 2010. :-P

pauleeepaul

Multiple promos when participation is limited, and awarding of EXP VIPs for high volume travelers.

bdemaria

So you have your own account in your name and then your mom has an account in her name? If this is the case, then you can't consolidate them into one account. The only thing you can do is to transfer - w/fees of course - from one account to the other.

uxb

No. Both accounts are in my name.

r415

Multiple accounts can happen quite legitimately as well. One of my friends had two accounts recently, one of which was his old converted TWA account that stayed active because he had a miles credit card going to it, while his AA account number is what he always used for flying. When asked why he had both accounts, he replied that he lost the number for his old account. He recently finally called AA, and they merged the accounts with no problems, but I'm pretty sure he was not violating any enforceable TOS.

TrojanHorse

regarding two accounts

i have to believe those employers who keep the miles would require or it would behoove the employee to have two accounts

one for business, one for non-business travel

Efrem

I hope nothing I said was misinterpreted as suggesting that two accounts only happen "not legitimately." In my example, leaving a number off a credit card application can be an honest mistake. Of all the people who have two numbers, I doubt many were trying to game the system.

If I were an employee at a company with such a policy, merits of the policy aside (that's another thread), I'd object to this on the basis that it will make it much harder to gain status. Back when I did a lot of business travel on AA, if I had needed two accounts for this reason, I would have ended up as Platinum (with miles to spare) on the business side and Gold (more or less) in my personal account, rather than EXP for the total. As long as the company gets to use the miles it paid for, why should it object if they're combined with others for this purpose?

25milesfromhome

Before the federal government allowed employees to keep and use the miles gained on official travel for personal use, many federal employees maintained two accounts.