hey mate, talk to us like that when they one day change the rule to 6 months. hehehe

I personally check and do activity to accounts I have/manage but that's cuz I both have some free time for all this and am addicted to the game. It's been worth the free tix for me too, however.

:)MM

How can I save my son's USAirways miles?
 

My son is a student who can't afford a credit card with an annual fee; can't even afford to eat out. He has too many USAirways miles to throw away, but with the new 18 month expiration rule, it looks as if he's going to lose them by the end of January.
What can I do to keep these miles from expiring (other than spending a lot of money to buy gift miles from USAirways)?
His address and email are not the same as mine. I'm thinking that if I try to use the dining or shopping programs, some of the information won't match and the miles won't be credited.
I'm open to all suggestions, please.

The dining program doesn't care. You can register one of your credit cards
to his name and frequent flyer number; then eat somewhere that gets miles.
Maybe he has to do the registration, but the name on the credit card
doesn't matter.

https://usairways.rewardsnetwork.com...p.jsp?refId=RN

Does he have any credit card? If so he can do idine. Another possibility is one of your hotel or car reservations.

I had a receipt from my parents from one of their stays at a choice hotel. My wife's Delta points were going to expire 12/31/06. I changed my choice hotel earning preference to Delta miles, changed the account number to my wife's Skymiles account, then called Choice to request stay credit. Miles posted within a week. Should work with most hotels/rental cars.

i stopped concentrating on US Air when i used all mine up and let it go. (I use united) but unless rules have changed I have 3 easy ways for you:

1) you CAN assign ANY debit or credit card owned by ANY person such that when it is used at a dining place on the list, it can give miles to ANY miles account. Example: I used to set one of my credit cards for a completely different airline to my wife's mom's DL account by making it so the card that gave her dining miles was simply MY 16 digit number and EXP date. It used to work and I would switch it if i needed to shore up an account. her mom had like 14,000 miles and when it hit 15k and then she did dash to the gate promo (or should i say, i did it for her) she had 25k. someone in the family used the award ticket.

2) US Air used to have and still may have a thing called bonus bar. Buy something online that is thru that bar and you get miles. Example, most airlines have a miles mall and if you buy ink or a new book from Amazon or something, youd get miles. Again it does not matter WHOs card is used to BUY, rather, it is important that you merely go thru the link to get to the store online you are buying from. An example of this is that my old company ordered everything for the office from Best Buy. I told the accounting girl to go thru NWA's worldperks mall and enter my FF number. This made her have to use one extra screen because once she entered the best buy store via the NWA link I had set up for her for that service, she was essentially making it so I would get like 3 miles per $1 every time the company bought its supplies. Even if some corporate credit card or account was used to pay for it all, I would get my miles too. It hurt no one and helped us both because I got her and her husband a few nice bottles of fine french wine after redeeming for a free trip there once.

3) Redeem some US miles for a magazine subscription. ANY activity, even a negative, will reset the 18 months. If you need none, give them as gifts. It is the holiday you know.

NOTE to print out EVERYTHING involving this stuff above as partner affiliates like malls and mags make mistakes and/or take long to post and deliver stuff sometimes.

Good luck!

:)MM

I also have a small amount of US Airways miles in my account which will expire at the end of January, and since I don't expect to fly US in the near future, I could just let them expire. But the possibilty of the US-DL merger and the possible combination (if it happens) of their FF plans made me rethink my options. Since most of the magazines for points aren't available outside the U.S. and I'm not going to direct any hotel or other spending to US Airways, the only option for me, which you may want to consider, is to donate some of the miles (1,000 mile minimum) to one of the four charitable organizations listed on the US Airways website. This would keep your son's account active, and help at least one of those organizations in a small way. Many airlines have charities that would be glad to get help with the mileage donations, and that would help keep accounts active for a while longer, while aiding those charities who need it.

Hope this helps.

bj-21.

redeem a (relative) handful of miles for a magazine subscription (if usair allows that).

Thanks everybody for the suggestions and the logistics advice. I went through the Dividend Miles shopping portal using my son's USAirways number and downloaded some songs from ipod. If the miles don't post shortly, I'll try the dining option, just for insurance.

as long as you printed everything relating to that purchase (and you ALWAYS should) then you could argue with the airline that their partner's slowness in posting to your account should not be your problem, and in the meantime, fax the printouts to mileage CS...


:)MM