Please Share iDine Bonuses [2005 - 2016]
#1186
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Posts: 2,505
The Southwest Airlines Rewards Network (iDine) new member bonus was improved to 1,000 bonus points. All of the other dining programs set to expire last month were extended
#1187
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: RSW
Programs: Delta - Silver; UA - Silver; HHonors - Diamond; IHG - Spire Ambassador; Marriott Bonvoy - Titanium
Posts: 14,184
Sorry if this is OT, but I have received surveys from RN asking "why aren't you dining with us anymore?" I have responded that it's because of lack of promotions. Anyone else?
#1188
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,927
I didn't even realize there were surveys, other than for restaurants of course. (I don't know if I got any or not.) I tend to delete emails from them with that sort of title because I tend for months to focus on one of half a dozen RN programs I have to the exclusion of all the rest for a period of time, and they just each individually complain why I haven't dined with them when I have been dining but with another airline's subprogram. (I'm using my Chase Freedom card for the 5x rotating bonus for restaurants this quarter, and it's too much work to keep switching it between programs, so between July and September all my dines are automatically in one mileage program. Also, these days I focus my dines on UA more than the others because I'm locked out of earning UA miles from credit cards due to 5/24 .)
#1189
Join Date: May 2006
Location: BOS and ...
Programs: UA 2MM, DL 500k, AA 500k, Hyatt GP 1M, HH Gold, Rad. Gold, CP Gold, Miracle Fruit-su Club
Posts: 9,950
I'm getting the surveys, too, but no enticements.
Always interesting to me. Over the years, I've called to sign up with airline "Y"'s program, and heard, "I have you in "X"'s program. Do you want to switch?" Or I've called to ask why I didn't earn any miles, let alone the bonus I was going for, in airline "X"'s program, and learned that I'd earned miles in "Y". (There were more than two; not trying to disguise them; they're all the same; I just don't remember which were which, back in the day.)
I note, "Over the years..." because suchlike happened back when the bonuses were relatively lucrative enough that it mattered which was which beyond just to keep accounts alive ... which was my unheeded one answer that mattered before I stopped taking the surveys.
I note, "Over the years..." because suchlike happened back when the bonuses were relatively lucrative enough that it mattered which was which beyond just to keep accounts alive ... which was my unheeded one answer that mattered before I stopped taking the surveys.
#1191
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: PBI / JFK, ISP, LGA
Programs: AA, AS, AV, B6, DL, F9, WN
Posts: 866
I just received a bonus offer from DL. I will earn 250 bonus miles for one dine from 9/19/16 to 10/3/16. It may take six weeks for the bonus miles to be posted in my DL account. My other dining accounts did not offer any bonus.
#1192
Join Date: Jul 2013
Programs: AA ExecPlat, Marriott LT Titanium, HH Diamond, UA Silver
Posts: 131
I am in American's program, and earned just one dine in the past 6 months. For whatever reason a ton of the regular places I was dining (and earning) have left the program, and I never noticed. Is there any better program or network I should be chasing? I've had some good bonus hits in the past.
Thanks in advance for all the great insights I get here.
Thanks in advance for all the great insights I get here.
#1193
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,927
I am in American's program, and earned just one dine in the past 6 months. For whatever reason a ton of the regular places I was dining (and earning) have left the program, and I never noticed. Is there any better program or network I should be chasing? I've had some good bonus hits in the past.
Thanks in advance for all the great insights I get here.
Thanks in advance for all the great insights I get here.
Lots of people have had good bonus hits in the past. But the days of good bonuses seem to be long gone. The 250 miles mentioned above for 1 dine, once in a rare moon, is about as good as it gets (if you've already joined all the programs that make sense for you).
And there is no other network that lots you earns miles for dining, except for the much tinier one at www.thanksagain.com.
#1194
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: New England
Programs: American Gold, Marriott Gold, Hilton Silver
Posts: 5,617
Also, check your airline programs to see if they're offering the same amount of miles. I'm not sure if JetBlue is the only one out of all of them that does this, but JetBlue is also a RewardsNetwork earning partner and they keep it simple with a terrible earning rate (compared to other programs which earn 3 or 5 miles per $ depending on whether you have VIP status) and no increased rates due to VIP status (in fact, their program has no status levels at all).
#1195
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,927
I haven't dined in DL dining in about half a year. I've been dining in UA since at least the start of July (my Freedom card is registered to UA dining and the Freedom 3Q 2016 bonus is restaurants), before that for a couple months I was doing mostly AS.
#1196
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Scarsdale, NY USA; LT PLT AA; AA 3 mm (4 mm will never happen); Hilton Diamond, Marriott Silver, AA is clueless why I fly
Posts: 754
I got the same offer at the same time also from DL, and also not from any of the other programs.
I haven't dined in DL dining in about half a year. I've been dining in UA since at least the start of July (my Freedom card is registered to UA dining and the Freedom 3Q 2016 bonus is restaurants), before that for a couple months I was doing mostly AS.
I haven't dined in DL dining in about half a year. I've been dining in UA since at least the start of July (my Freedom card is registered to UA dining and the Freedom 3Q 2016 bonus is restaurants), before that for a couple months I was doing mostly AS.
#1197
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: home = LAX
Posts: 25,927
I got the same offer at the same time also from DL, and also not from any of the other programs.
I haven't dined in DL dining in about half a year. I've been dining in UA since at least the start of July (my Freedom card is registered to UA dining and the Freedom 3Q 2016 bonus is restaurants), before that for a couple months I was doing mostly AS.
I haven't dined in DL dining in about half a year. I've been dining in UA since at least the start of July (my Freedom card is registered to UA dining and the Freedom 3Q 2016 bonus is restaurants), before that for a couple months I was doing mostly AS.
#1198
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: New England
Programs: American Gold, Marriott Gold, Hilton Silver
Posts: 5,617
I got the same deal from the United program, albeit late last month. I did not partake as I did not have time, and my favorite RN restaurant closed for good.
#1199
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: PBI / JFK, ISP, LGA
Programs: AA, AS, AV, B6, DL, F9, WN
Posts: 866
I got the same offer at the same time also from DL, and also not from any of the other programs.
I haven't dined in DL dining in about half a year. I've been dining in UA since at least the start of July (my Freedom card is registered to UA dining and the Freedom 3Q 2016 bonus is restaurants), before that for a couple months I was doing mostly AS.
I haven't dined in DL dining in about half a year. I've been dining in UA since at least the start of July (my Freedom card is registered to UA dining and the Freedom 3Q 2016 bonus is restaurants), before that for a couple months I was doing mostly AS.
#1200
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 3,968
From AA, received 10/25: 750 bonus miles for one dine in the next 14 days. I'm VIP through next year; my last dine was 7/18.