I'd say Randy Johnson....

I consider Iceland - over the summer solstice (airfare for price of tax) - my biggest score in '04. A country Ms. Coyote & I never would have chosen on our own, and one we truly enjoyed visiting.

I think it qualifies under the heading because I'm sure we musta put 50,000 miles on that rental car while we were there

Several of the photos are now framed and hanging in my home as fond memories.

Thank you flyertalk!

Earning just over 574,000 miles on the triple bonus miles program Jan to March 31st. Also, on one of the trips a problem in NRT with UA and they gave a credit voucher for $600.

Regards,
Robert

nah, the unit is getting old. no worry!!

go sox!

From frequent flyer miles to Randy Johnson's age . . . .
Returning to the original subject:
1,100,000 DL miles in 1-800-Flowers' 100 mi/$ offer.
290,000 UA&DL miles in the double miles for tax payments offers.
250,000 DL miles for ten family members in the Priority Club membership offer.
225,000 AA miles from Bank Direct deposits.
225,000 Amex Membership Rewards points from spending.
300,000 BA miles from 120,000 Starwood points during the 2.5mi/pt offer.
150,000 UA/US/NW miles in credit card signup bonuses.

I'd have to agree with this in my case. I've also framed some of my photos from this trip & have put them on the wall.

Best bang for my buck was the points.com promo. I think I got about 26,000+ AA miles for each of my family members for $5.27 a piece. 100,000+ miles for about $21 or 0.0002 per mile.

Best run of luck has been getting 65,000 delta bonus miles in the last couple months. I started in August with no Delta account at all and now have 70,000+ after one $150 domestic flight and the IC Hotel promo.:

25,000 - IC Promo
1,250 - IC Promo Cert
5,000 - Transfer Bonus from IC Promo Cert
2,000 - IC Hotel Stay Bonus (used free night cert)
10,000 - Fly One Earn Now Bonus
15,000 - Comair Apology miles for a flight I had no problems with over xmas
7,000 - Dash to the Gate Game Bonus
________
65,250 Bonus Miles for very little effort

Total I now have 70,306 - I spent $150 on the IC promo and about $150 a domestic RT. And I didn't have to pay for my hotel stay for the other night for the hotel cert cause someone else picked up the tab. That's just 0.004 per mile.

peace,
~Ben~

well, I think he is 42 and has longer hair than Johnny Damon, but speaking of 42, that's how many miles I got free (420,000 in total) from any and all gift card stuff all last year!

Maybe he IS a lucky guy after all. I just figured that number out last nite and it was just over that figure so there ya go!

For 800 Flowers, it was 100 miles per dollar, so if u got 1,100,000 miles, then you spent 11,000 dollars at 800 flowers???

what the hell did u do with all those gc's and flowers???

Well I did'nt get any miles but I nailed two skywest flight attendents at the Irvine Hilton, after a rather routine trip from SLC.

The did things to me (and each other) that would make Ron Jeremy blush!

You took the words right out of my mouth.

11gs for flowers? Thats alot of gift baskets.

Getting bumped last January for $1600 DL Bucks.

I flew to New England several times, to Florida several times, to Japan once. Plus Delta paid for my hotel, breakfast, lunch, and dinner the 3 days I was getting bumped.

SCORE!

Marathon,

The ALCS was amazing. As a St.Louis Cardinals fan, I was disappointed by our performance in the World Series, however, the Red Sox are my second favorite team.

I was hoping for a 7 game World Series, with the Cards pulling it out on an Edmonds or Pujols homer. . . .but, the Red Sox winning was OK by me . . . I grew up on Ozzie Smith, Jack Clark, Willie McGee, Tommy Herr, Ken Oberkfell/Terry Pendleton, Joaquin Andujar, John Tudor, Bruce Sutter/Todd Worrell, Darryl Porter. . .etc. ..

but my favorites were Wade Boggs (until he went to the Evil Empire), Mike Greenwell, Ellis Burks, Roger Clemens (until he went to Toronto. . .. Yanks and Astros are even worse), Oil Can Boyd (before he went crazy), Marty Barrett. . etc.

Dam Mookie Wilson and Ray Knight!!!!!

Here's to a Cards-BoSox 2005 World Series.

Biggy

Cheers! I have respect for the Cardinals and though we won the way we did, I know they are a great team. I would enjoy seeing a rematch and besides, that would mean the Yanks are out of it again! (you guys could beat out the Mets--well, everyone does anyway--and make Pedro feel like a kid again eating Mangos... Here's to the Cards!)

Anyway, should this happen, then I shall use my MILES to get out to see the games and that will be a big SCORE of 2005!

I actually could have gone to a WS game and would have been able a to give someone at work a 35k award trip to Hawaii for the tickets and a stay at their brother's place, but they cancelled the Hawaii plans! Oh well. Next time. Besides, the boos would not have liked this anyway. The sox will be in it again so I know there is a tomorrow and the sox are gonna be there again and again!...

I do have those gift card miles laying around--well, burning them up as we speak, so let the season begin! Anyone know when Cubs tix go on sale? Gotta see the June 10-12 games too!

MM

I converted around $5000 into ServiceMaster gift certificates, which really were quite useful (handyman work, A/C repair, lawn work, cleaning, etc.). You can't do that conversion any more. I gave around $2000 in gifts, mostly to the local children's hospital (toys). I still have around $4000 in 1-800-Flowers gift certificates.