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Valuemags was HUGE
The Starwood to Qantas transfer netted a few Concord tickets as well (for about $1500 per round trip) I recall a thread about the “Mexican Hat Dance.” Something about hoping back and forth across the border. Never did it, but it was huge in the early days of FT. Bangkok-Phuket flights on Thai. They were dirt cheep ($15 one way or something). FTers would fly back and forth for a few days, earning 1K status quickly! On United, 500 upgrade coupons was “as the crow flies.” One could fly LAX-JFK-SFO for a MR and use one 500 miler to upgrade the whole journey, as it was calculated LAX-SFO. |
Originally Posted by zrs70
(Post 31686695)
Bangkok-Phuket flights on Thai. They were dirt cheep ($15 one way or something). FTers would fly back and forth for a few days, earning 1K status quickly!
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Originally Posted by josephstern
(Post 31686829)
I believe there was never an ID issue somehow.
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Originally Posted by sdsearch
(Post 31460433)
Perhaps the most valuable thing I learned some time back (circa 2003) on FlyerTalk was that all AA miles from all sources counted (back then) toward AA lifetime elite status. So I set out trying to earn AA miles any way I could above all else, and half a year before all that ended (in late 2011), I totaled 2 million lifetime AA miles earned in about 8 years and earned lifetime AA Plat status (second level up) as a result..A good fraction of the actual miles I earned from flying were from double and triple RDM miles bonuses on flights (during the economic downturn) that I learned about on FlyerTalk. I pretty much never fly for work, so this is not something I could have ever achieved otherwise.
I bought about 100k in dollar coins, tried to make most of my dining out at places that were in AAdvantage Dining, charged everything to my Citi AA card, etc. The icing on the cake was the promo AA ran, I think @ 2009, where they introduced service to 27 new cities, and if you traveled to 10 of them in a three month period, not only was it double miles on each flight, you also got 100k bonus miles at the end. IIRC, six of them were straight turns, (DFW-CYS, DFW-FAY, etc.) The rest I had to overnight, I remember a couple DFW-ORD-AVP and similar. On the ones I had to overnight, i'd burn some points on a cheap Starwood hotel. I never did any of the famous transcons AA was offering triple miles, because the positioning flights and lack of upgrade availability scared me off. I crossed over 2MM Lifetime about a year before they ended the "all miles count", and I got some nice upgrades and other perks from that LT PLT status. Ironically, now I almost exclusively pay for F domestically, J international, and am now starting to look into B6 for domestic flights. It was a fun hobby at the time, but I've realized, if you pay for F/J, and have a ton of BE points to cash in for AAdmirals Club passes, status doesn't matter. FT, and all it's contributors, taught me all this, and for that I'm really thankful! |
Sadly the kinds of deals and opportunities are less often discussed on FT and more in private groups.
Also, FT is getting more "corporate" by implementing rules and restrictions to please their sponsors and advertisers. One example of those rules is the interdiction of naming which competing hotel booking website was used in reports of successful Best Rate Guarantee claim reports |
The grand daddy of all - the 1 million miles LatinPass run.
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Originally Posted by yulsee
(Post 31788957)
Sadly the kinds of deals and opportunities are less often discussed on FT and more in private groups.
-FT itself became more mainstream -bloggers constantly combing FT for deals/tricks so they can tell the world about them Loose lips sink.... |
Originally Posted by moondog
(Post 31791859)
This is function of 2 things:
-FT itself become more mainstream -bloggers constantly combing FT for deals/tricks so they can tell the world about them Loose lips sink.... |
Originally Posted by davistev
(Post 31790946)
The grand daddy of all - the 1 million miles LatinPass run.
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What about the great OnePass---->Amtrak----->United caper circa 2002? You could double-transfer miles at 1:1 back when those airlines were separate and CO had many more complaints about redemptions. I moved some 275K before they limited and then stopped it, and used the UA miles to fly around the south Pacific on NZ awards. My great masterpiece was a 7-ticket odyssey in summer 2006.
Also, around 2000 when I started there were all these codes bouncing around where you'd call CO and have them appended to your account. Like the HYE0 "Hyatt bonus" that didn't require Hyatt stays. I checked my account and had 40K extra miles (keyed to flight segments) posted one day just because of that. RDM earning was of course much better then in coach, and so were some of the award sales: CO at 20K RT to DUS and 25K to HKG, and DL at 40K to BKK. |
Originally Posted by El Boocho
(Post 31494544)
So the angle was to book the 20,000 ticket and then cancel which would provide a $ credit. Interesting and about what I surmised, but the how to do it was unclear. For what it is worth, I recall picking up a sniff of it from the old chat feature. No idea if that still exists, but it was basically a big chat room that anyone could enter and participate in or just observe. Back in my more rambunctious days I'd logon late night if other options didn't pan out :)
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Originally Posted by moondog
(Post 31444772)
I'm starting this thread as a companion to https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mile...flyertalk.html
Following are my favorites: 1. Valuemags ---> Concorde What exactly was/were these? |
Originally Posted by the phoenix
(Post 31806674)
What exactly was/were these? |
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