I'm getting married and am wondering what effect it will have on my mileage accounts. Starwood tells me they will let you join accounts if you get married--do any airlines or other hotel programs allow this?

Also, I'll make sure she applies for the 2 Hilton and the 1 Marriott credit cards before the wedding under her name to get those points.

If i am not mistaken. HH lets you combine your accounts as well.
I thought you'd be asking questions about how our wives cope with us being gone all the time.

I asked AA, NW, CO, DL, UA, and HP after I got married. All said nope, no combining.

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Should be no dramatic effect really, unless you want it to to be!

You'll still be two different people right?

So you are both entitled to seek the same benefits independently if you like!

I do not feel that the name should really matter at all!

And enjoy marital bliss too!

Congrat's!




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why are you getting married?

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And besides...

having to keep your frequent flyer accounts in your name only can be seen as a good thing. It might be the ONLY thing left in time that has only your name on it!

It'll help you keep the memories of being single.

Congratulations.

I too am getting married and have a slightly different issue:

My wife to be doesn't travel for work but over the past ten years or so has squirreled away a couple of hundred thousand AA miles from leisure travel. I don't have more than 20,000 or so AA miles. I on the other hand have ~300,000 miles between UA and US. She has essentially none on these carriers.

So if we're to take award travel together we're going to have to treat one another which I guess is not all bad.

She however loves AA and hates UA.

So for future mileage earning I am going to have to either convert her or switch over to AA. Or I guess we could "compromise" and select a third, new carrier of choice but out of ORD that's not terribly attractive. I posted on the AA forum that I was considering a switch (I hate RJs too) but got few responses.

What to do.

Lemmon
HH lets you combine, useful if one of you generates status, but minorly costly as you only have one account to update quarterly to get the bonus points

Mikey
You can travel "together" on separate carriers/flights to many of the same locations! But it seems to me that people making the commitment to marry should be flexible enough to be together when they vacation regardless of the carrier. If she flies that much on AA (100,000's) and hates UA ("0"), what is her basis of experience on UA to judge her hatred?

A true Flyertalker: You are getting married and all you worry about is miles!

Congratulations, Lemmon, here's wishing you and your bride many memorable mileage runs together! (and heaps of miles too!)

Belle in Atlanta

BA is the only airline I know that more or less allows combined mileage. They have a Household Account feature that lets you link up to 4 family members accounts and combine mileage for awards.

Mikey:

You might want to consider who converts by determining where the two of you might go on vacation as a couple. If it's internationally then look at who provides the most available seats using points and also consider their partner airlines. My wife and I faced a similar situation when we got married many years ago. We decided to not focus on one airline but on several. Now we have about 500k each in AA, UA, and DL. With that we have a very nice selection of travel options available to us. This is very important when kids come into the picture. Kids have a tendency to dictate your travel destination.

Anywho... best wishes to those of you who are getting married

Hilton offers you the ability, they call it a mutual fund, opnce you are married call and they will tell you where to fax in the marriage certificate.

If you take advantage of any of the 50,000 points instant gold promotions, you will only be able to do one of them under the mutual fund, if you keep separate accounts you can do two. Something to consider.

Excellent point. I guess "hates" is less accurate than "prefers AA." In any case, we'll work it out.

To phoenixitc's point, based on my experience trying to get from here to there for my honeymoon, I agree that it may behoove us to maintain mileage balances in more than one strong alliance. *A and OneWorld a good combo?

Congratulations on getting married!!