Exchanging Miles
Aug 28, 2003, 7:53 am
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Exchanging Miles
Hi is it possible to exchange continental miles between people. If so what are the costs/breakevens and how is it done.
Aug 28, 2003, 8:35 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by vshah:
Hi is it possible to exchange continental miles between people. </font>
Hi is it possible to exchange continental miles between people. </font>
Aug 28, 2003, 10:59 am
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by fly co to see the yanks:
i don't think you can do it currently, but wasn't there a "promotion" in place a while back whereby you can combine with family members for a healthy fee?
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i don't think you can do it currently, but wasn't there a "promotion" in place a while back whereby you can combine with family members for a healthy fee?
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Yup, $5 per 500 miles with a minimum of 2,500 miles to be transferred. Not a bad deal IMO when it brings you up to an award. Certainly better than buying the miles directly from CO.
Aug 28, 2003, 11:12 am
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The $5 per 500 miles - is that only for family members? Is this something I can do just by calling onepass? thanks in advance. I'm looking to transfer 100k miles I wonder if there are any break points.
Aug 29, 2003, 1:23 pm
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I just got off the phone with one pass, and the current "promo" is to gift miles from one account to another at a rate of $32.00/1000 (robbery), however I just transfered 1000 in order to top off an account and transfer out 5K to Hilton which would have eventually been abandoned. I guess $32 for 10K Hilton pts isn't too bad.
Aug 29, 2003, 3:00 pm
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$32/1000 -- That's the same rate as they charge now when they sell miles!
Aug 29, 2003, 5:04 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by vshah:
The $5 per 500 miles - is that only for family members? Is this something I can do just by calling onepass? thanks in advance. I'm looking to transfer 100k miles I wonder if there are any break points.</font>
The $5 per 500 miles - is that only for family members? Is this something I can do just by calling onepass? thanks in advance. I'm looking to transfer 100k miles I wonder if there are any break points.</font>
The promotion runs annually, but expired a few months ago. A OP agent told me the usually run the promotion between March and May of each year.
And you can transfer between anyone's account. You just need the account number and PIN code.
[This message has been edited by cab747 (edited 08-29-2003).]