Am new to this site, so don't even know where to start. Love to travel (US & Europe); belong to Delta, United, BA, & American frequent-flyer programs. Any suggestions on what I should be looking at ??

Janet

First off, Welcome to FT. Glad to have you here and I hope you find it as useful as I have. Each of the programmes you collect with will have their own pages. Spend some time on each of them. Most will have some sticky posts at the top with FAQs for that forum and programme.

If you decide to do Mileage Runs (MR), there are a couple of forums focused on that.

If you are planning a trip to a specific new country or region, you might want to check that country's or region's forum for info on attractions, airports, transport or other non-airline specific info.

The community buzz forum will allow you to find FT dinners, drinks or Dos. A FT Do is nomally a weekend event with FTs coming together for drinks, dinners and other fun activities. I've made some life long friends at various Dos and I've hosted visiting FTers for drinks in my hometown when I can.

Two final words of advice, use the search function before posting a question and try to be as specific as you can in choosing a forum to post you question in, i.e. BA questions in the BA Forum, German questions in the Germany Forum, Delta questions in the Delta forum.

Again Welcome
mpc1

Janet

One more bit of advice, if you can, try and concentrate on one, or at the most two, frequent flyer programmes, you'll maximize your ability to collect points and you'll hopefully be able to achieve FF status on at least one programme.

That being said, if you have to fly another airline or alliance, it's better to collect some miles, than no miles.

Frequent flyer status, before you have it, you probably can't figure out what the fuss is all about; after you have it (especially mid-tier or above) you'll wonder how you lived without it.

mpc1

Welcome

At the very least you should subscribe to the threads about the programs you belong to.

There are destination specific threads too.

In the beginning this place can be quite overwhealming, so take it one step at a time. Go throught the listing of forums, follow some that you think may interest you, and every now and then take out the ones that didn't make it with you, and add some more. Eventually you will have a custom flyertalk with just stuff that interests you.

welcome,

if there is a term or acronym you don't understand, see: http://www.flyertalk.com/glossary/

Happy Flyertalking

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