How to keep my kids account active?
 

Hello all, I'm a newbie and have been enjoying reading these boards.

I just opened a CC with Citi for 75k on AAL and am looking forward to earning more mileage in hopes to earn enough for a trip to Europe in a few years. We belong to AA and Delta so I haven't yet figure out which one I should put the most mileage on. We live in Hawaii so would always get at least 2,000+ just to fly anywhere out of state. We generally do one trip a year, and always to the continental US. I usually buy the cheapest tickets which are normally on AA and Delta.

Basically, I'd like to find out how I could keep our sons two accounts active since he can't have a CC and I couldn't make purchases via his account in order for him to get mileage credit. What am I missing?

Any help on this is very much appreciated. :)

This is a classic FAQ, and is generally answered accordingly in the forum for each air carrier. For AA, see http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...l#post11822072

Thanks I missed seeing that one.

So from what I understand, I can register iDine or buy stuff via my son's account using my cc that is not already registered on one of my own miles account?

sorry but this is all new and confusing to me. :confused:

They also offer magazine subscriptions for 300 – 400 miles.

go to club.live.com and have the kid play games for miles!

For AA, look into Opinion Place for surveys to keep accounts active.

e-miles and e-rewards are other ways to keep accounts active.

I love it! Well, that is, my kids will . . .^

I believe AA and Delta both have their affiliated online shopping malls where you can earn miles for purchases at many national retailers. These malls are often the cheapest way to keep an account active. There's places in there you probably shop at anyway, so an easy way to get miles for stuff you already buy. In the case of AA for sure (not sure about DL), iTunes is one of the merchants, so as little as a purchase of a song or tv show can get you miles to keep their accounts active if there isn't something you buy regularly. For me, I usually do my semi-regular HP printer cartridge purchases through these kinds of malls to keep active whichever account needs it.

Note, in order to earn miles at any of the participating merchants, you need to go to the shopping mall home first, log in, and link to the merchant through that page (and have cookies in your browser active). This puts a cookie in, which is what links the purchase to your (or your kids) mileage account.

I just did a search on the three sites and looks like only e-miles had good reviews. The other two had complaints about receiving nothing in return for filling in questionnaires. I'll try e-miles for my son's account.

Thanks! :)

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Buying an iTunes song (or anything you would normslly have bought) via the airlines e-shopping mall would probably be the cheapest and easiest. But be mindful that the miles can take several weeks to post to the mileage account (at least in my experience with AA), so this is best done well in advanced of any mileage expiration dates.

www.freefrequentflyermiles.com

pgary, one of the smartest people here on FT, maintains a site that tells all.
suggest reading it thoroughly and opting in to be alerted for changes.
pick a hotel program, in addition to an airline program.

edited to add: http://www.frequentflyerbonuses.com/
anytime a new bonus offer comes up, this newsletter will alert you