If you have that many accounts, you might want to look at slowly trading with other people to consolidate them. It would make things easier and many miles in one account is often better than a few scattered everywhere.

thanks for the tip!

Mind explaining exactly HOW you deposit your miles/points into someone else's account???

Some airlines/hotel chains permit this, BUT at a VERY hefty fee which tends to negate the value of doing it.

I always donate a few miles or subscribe to a magazine with one of the many airlines that allow this.
Cheers

Yep, these ideas were mentioned in previous posts on this thread.

Do the charities use the miles to get airline tickets, or are they converted to cash?

On the DL Website it is possible to transfer Skymiles to a friend's acct., but as Kathy has said, the fee is outrageous: $115 for 9K miles !
U can try Coupon Connection, where someone may be 9K short of a juicy award, such as F or J trans-oceanic.
Indeed, someone has recently posted in DL forum that he has 3 accts. with 10--12K each.

Too bad DL quit allowing transfers to Hilton in 2003 !

Thanks for that suggestion! Apparently, based on the exchange rates, my orphaned Midwest Express miles are worth a whole lot more than my USAir miles (3:1 to DL rather than 30:1 from US to DL)!

Sounds like Race to the Gate to me!

Not true in either case! You can transfer Diners Club points (at the very least) into Starwood:

https://www.citibank.com/dinersus/js...egory=e350b05d

as well as into Amtrak:

https://www.citibank.com/dinersus/js...egory=9837b40b

And you can exchange Hilton HHonors points into Amtrak:

http://hhonors.hilton.com/en/hhonors/rewards/rail.jhtml

And I doubt those are the only ways, but that's enough to prove that there are multiple ways to refresh those accounts "from partners", depending on what else you have.

But therein's the problem: Refreshing many accounts does depend on what else you have. Which would make a service like this very complicated to set up and manage. The most able to do it would probably be points.com (since they're already set up to do transfers between a number of programs), but given their track record at providing value (not!), you can guess how much they'd charge for every automatic "ping" of an account!

Well, actually, it may not be true about Amtrak Guest Rewards. There's a current thread in that forum which suggests that unless you take an actual train ride and credit it to your AGR account, your points will expire after three years:

Q about point expiration after 3 years

And that's the other problem. The rules are always changing.

Another option.

I don't fly Delta any more but had some miles left and used them to buy free tickets for my kids who aren't going to make Elite on anything anyway. Was left with about 15,000, so I transferred in another 10K from Amex ... so I can have one more free flight to buy for one of the kids some time in the next couple of years ... then I'm done.

Here's an easy way to extend your AA miles. There's No minimum donation.
http://www.unicefusa.org/aa

doing but one idine will extend any program. You can set up and change any idine card to link to anyone's FF account. Wanna pay me to make my next $4 beer give you a few miles to make your account live another 1/3 decade?



Anyway, I know some airlines like Singapore Airlines' krisFlyer programme will allow a one time 6 month extention if you fill out some form and fax it to them. At least they used to. But hey, that's the program that expires your miles in chunks every couple years regardless of activity so be wary anyway!

MM

get 1,000 more if you can find a way. I think inter island flights in Hawaii are like 10k now. I know people who'd love to trade you something for those!