Selling miles
 

I have 39500+ frequent flier miles on Delta. I will never use them for a free ticket or any of there stuff. I was thinking about selling them on websites like air-awards.com or www.mileageaward.com.

Has anyone ever did this? Any pros or cons?

Thanks for advice in advance.

How about it's illegal for you to resell miles?

Or that if the airline found out, they'd be within their rights to freeze your account?

But if he doesn't care and will never use DL again, the risk isn't as great as someone who cares about their skymiles account.

how do sites like these stay in business then?

Risk management. They're betting that the big airlines won't stamp on them as long as their operation is small. But if the big airline's FF programs decide it's worth their effort to stamp out this company, then they will.

I wouldn't be surprised if you were blacklisted from other FF programs. Just spend it on a ticket or something.. or donate the miles.

Donate the miles? That brings up an interesting dilemma. I wanted to donate a 25K AA voucher to a non profit group to auction off. I verfied first that it was ok with AA. They said NO I could not do that.

How would someone donate miles to a non profit?

Most airlines offer a handful of organizations that they have selected to be eligible to receive your mileage donations.

With continental, you can donate to four or five groups via onepass.com. The process is not as automated as they try to make it seem, but it usually works.

First of all it is not illegal to sell or buy miles. It may be not allowed in the policy but you are not breaking any laws. A recent lawsuit brought by Delta torwads a mileage broker in New Jersey was thrown out of court becuase the court claimed there was no merit. You will always run the risk of Delta finding out but if you know what you are doing you will have no problems.

A better idea would be to tank up your miles with a cheap mileage run to get the mileage account up to a level that you can use.

At least in California you are breaking a criminal law.

Why not transfer the Delta SkyMiles to the Hilton HHonors program? You would get two HHonors points per Delta mile. (I believe the transfer must be of 5,000 mile increments.)

Kathy

Really. Could you provide a citation?

There are no laws on the books in any state regarding the selling of frequent flyer miles. You are merely violating the contract between the airline and yourself. At that point the airline has the option of terminating your account and taking away all of your miles. They can also require a person to pay for a ticket if they are caught at the airport.

How about selling upgrade certs? Isn't that against the rules too?

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