Help - drowning in miles!
Jan 25, 2007 | 1:20 am
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: London, England
Programs: MUCCI -- What else matters?
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Folks, thanks for all of your help on this. This is a very useful forum ;-)
Yes, I am drowning in miles. Did you know that it's possible to drown in three inches of water? I don't have to have lots and lots of them - I just need to have more than I am capable of handling to be "out of my depth", as it were...
I am very unlikely to ever fly BA across the pond (and indeed the last time I did was on such a cheap ticket it got me something like 1500 miles LHR-AUS-LHR). My company travel agent seems to get preferential rates from American. So perhaps I'll sign up for AA before my next flight to the US that doesn't have *A routing. Can AA upgrades be used transatlantic or not?
I just spent 7100 of the air miles to get a Virgin Atlantic flight for my wife to come with me to Vegas in April. Off to a conference, so work is paying for my flight - and Virgin have the only direct route from London. It's a shame, as I don't get BMI status miles for virgin, but at least there'll be 10480 destinations miles out of it. I will be stopping collecting air miles; the general consensus seems that they are not worth it.
I will stick with BMI DC for now regarding *A. Thanks for the offer of sign up to united, but having looked at the sticky on the BMI forum it actually looks like it's one of the better places to collect miles (and after the virgin flight I'll have enough to drive to Poland, drop the kids at the mother in law, and take the wife first class to Japan - we've always wanted to visit the orient).
I'm going to stick with collecting Hilton points (looking at existing bookings I will be Diamond within a month), and have changed my collection status to earn miles for BMI. I've also converted to variable miles per stay, since I was getting fixed miles and most of my stays are four or five days (which in the UK spends far more than the fixed mileage!). All other hotels I'll just sign up to get FF miles instead. The one place I'm thinking of making an exception is Marriott, since it's useful to have an alternative to Hilton. Perhaps when I hit Diamond I might write to Marriott and ask them to give me silver or gold status, rather than going out of my way to stay in Hiltons as I do sometimes. It can't hurt to ask!
Volvic, thanks most of all for your post - it was great. But thanks everyone - this has been really helpful!
-simon
Yes, I am drowning in miles. Did you know that it's possible to drown in three inches of water? I don't have to have lots and lots of them - I just need to have more than I am capable of handling to be "out of my depth", as it were...
I am very unlikely to ever fly BA across the pond (and indeed the last time I did was on such a cheap ticket it got me something like 1500 miles LHR-AUS-LHR). My company travel agent seems to get preferential rates from American. So perhaps I'll sign up for AA before my next flight to the US that doesn't have *A routing. Can AA upgrades be used transatlantic or not?
I just spent 7100 of the air miles to get a Virgin Atlantic flight for my wife to come with me to Vegas in April. Off to a conference, so work is paying for my flight - and Virgin have the only direct route from London. It's a shame, as I don't get BMI status miles for virgin, but at least there'll be 10480 destinations miles out of it. I will be stopping collecting air miles; the general consensus seems that they are not worth it.
I will stick with BMI DC for now regarding *A. Thanks for the offer of sign up to united, but having looked at the sticky on the BMI forum it actually looks like it's one of the better places to collect miles (and after the virgin flight I'll have enough to drive to Poland, drop the kids at the mother in law, and take the wife first class to Japan - we've always wanted to visit the orient).
I'm going to stick with collecting Hilton points (looking at existing bookings I will be Diamond within a month), and have changed my collection status to earn miles for BMI. I've also converted to variable miles per stay, since I was getting fixed miles and most of my stays are four or five days (which in the UK spends far more than the fixed mileage!). All other hotels I'll just sign up to get FF miles instead. The one place I'm thinking of making an exception is Marriott, since it's useful to have an alternative to Hilton. Perhaps when I hit Diamond I might write to Marriott and ask them to give me silver or gold status, rather than going out of my way to stay in Hiltons as I do sometimes. It can't hurt to ask!
Volvic, thanks most of all for your post - it was great. But thanks everyone - this has been really helpful!
-simon
