Flyertalk Eye for the Straight Guy
Jul 7, 2004 | 7:32 am
#16
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Pasadena,Ca.,US.
Programs: AA, Delta, United, SPG plat, Hyatt dia
Posts: 7,140
You might want to checkout the Walmart?Bank one gift card-cash back scheme.It does not get more"Rube Goldbergesque"than that.Just hope your investors/stockholders don't start asking ???about the wierd cash in/cash out expensing going on.
Jul 7, 2004 | 8:29 am
#17
Join Date: May 2004
Programs: AA Hilton UA NW Delta
Posts: 13
Originally Posted by Come Fry With Me
Thanks everyone for the welcome, thanks mods for the teleportation.And thanks to the Fab 6 for the advice.
Ok..........................
Airports: NY area. Laguardia, Islip, JFK and Newark in descending order of pref.
Prefered Destinations: love travel, go anywhere. Burning desires for Barcelona (been there 19 times as a musician, lots of friends), Lisbon (great city, though fast turning into McEurope), Toronto/Montreal (easy drive, but flying's faster), anything in Asia. San Francisco. London. Belgium (mussels, chocolate, french fries, and beer...it's heaven).Warm places in winter. Cool places in summer. I'd have done that Iceland trip reported in Slate in a red second. Love to travel.
Problem: very very little money. But this didn't stop me from hitting Tokyo two months ago ($350 r/t on AA, thanks to travelocity farewatcher, see, I still have vestiges of studliness left!). But as a musician and a writer, I can often score ways to at least partially pay for trips (gigs and articles). I have the adventurous, impulsive, finagling mindset that would have made me a frequent flyer contender if I'd not sort of fallen apart with all that a decade ago.
tom911: I will indeed go surf the AA board and find out what "platinum challenge to jump start to elite status" means. I seem to be all about AA, so I'll concentrate my efforts there.
shambles: thanks for welcoming me back into the unhealthy world of obsessive compulsion. I'm not fully grokking what you're saying with the Hilton thingee, it's sort of like coming in mid-spiel on the cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs bunny without being acquainted with the cereal. I could definitely use a way to lodge cheap, I do lots of driving road trips (for food...I satisfy cravings with multi hour rides, though I'm strangely not obese). I'll go to hilton's site and see what I can learn.
Much appreciated. Please let me know if the further info above changes anything. Shall I kiss those thousands in monthly expenditures (in my original posting) goodbye? C'mon, you guys. There's no one out there ingenious enough to help turn that into an MMT (major mileage thing) for me?
Ok..........................
Airports: NY area. Laguardia, Islip, JFK and Newark in descending order of pref.
Prefered Destinations: love travel, go anywhere. Burning desires for Barcelona (been there 19 times as a musician, lots of friends), Lisbon (great city, though fast turning into McEurope), Toronto/Montreal (easy drive, but flying's faster), anything in Asia. San Francisco. London. Belgium (mussels, chocolate, french fries, and beer...it's heaven).Warm places in winter. Cool places in summer. I'd have done that Iceland trip reported in Slate in a red second. Love to travel.
Problem: very very little money. But this didn't stop me from hitting Tokyo two months ago ($350 r/t on AA, thanks to travelocity farewatcher, see, I still have vestiges of studliness left!). But as a musician and a writer, I can often score ways to at least partially pay for trips (gigs and articles). I have the adventurous, impulsive, finagling mindset that would have made me a frequent flyer contender if I'd not sort of fallen apart with all that a decade ago.
tom911: I will indeed go surf the AA board and find out what "platinum challenge to jump start to elite status" means. I seem to be all about AA, so I'll concentrate my efforts there.
shambles: thanks for welcoming me back into the unhealthy world of obsessive compulsion. I'm not fully grokking what you're saying with the Hilton thingee, it's sort of like coming in mid-spiel on the cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs bunny without being acquainted with the cereal. I could definitely use a way to lodge cheap, I do lots of driving road trips (for food...I satisfy cravings with multi hour rides, though I'm strangely not obese). I'll go to hilton's site and see what I can learn.
Much appreciated. Please let me know if the further info above changes anything. Shall I kiss those thousands in monthly expenditures (in my original posting) goodbye? C'mon, you guys. There's no one out there ingenious enough to help turn that into an MMT (major mileage thing) for me?
Jul 7, 2004 | 8:48 am
#18
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Austin TX, AA Platinum for life (who will live longer, me or AAdvantage?)
Posts: 427
For the business expenses that could be charged... Get a Starwood AMEX, and charge everything for the business to that. Then have the business write the check to the Amex every month to pay those off. You'll earn points, which then can be turned into airline miles if you need them, OR they can sit at Starwood and be used for future hotel stays.