How many FF programs do you belong to? What's your balances?
 

I belong to 8, although I have miles in only 6 of those. Here's what's in my wallet:

United MileagePlus - 154,458
Frontier EarlyReturns - 24,080
Northwest Worldperks - 26,423
Delta SkyMiles - 25,100
Continental OnePass - 0
American Airlines AAdvantage - 29,977
US Airways Dividend Miles - 25,025
Southwest Airlines RapidRewards - 0

TOTAL: 285,063

Just started with this miles game a little over a year ago and have already redeemed a bunch, so I think I'm doing alright.

WHy is your skyteam mileage not pooled? ;) Or do you fly enough to make use of award ticket differences between the carriers?

I only accumulate in four programs, but only have activity in UA and F9. I've redeemed 25K out of F9 and 235,000 out of UA in the last four months.

Just over a year ago? Any tips/suggestions outside of BIS?

For me, currently 6 (UA, DL, CO, NW, US, HA) - about 550K balance. Most of my Sky Team and *A balances were from before you could earn on other carriers.

For me - credit cards mostly! :D Of my current 210K (or so) UA miles, my BIS mileage is under 52K. And my current balance does not include the 300-400K that I redeemed! :D

Of course, that was helped by shopping and double and triple airline mileage promos (including a BOS-ORD-EWR-LHR-IAD-BOS non MR :D thanks to UA res :D - remember those days? :confused:)!

Northwest WorldPerks- 67,883
American AAdvantage-19,667
AirTran A+ Rewards- 22 Credits

Total Mileage: 87,550

Im focusing all of my flying with American in order to get a quick summer vacation down to Puerto Vallarta...

Also, it seems that the original poster has both UA and US instead of pooling them together.

I have UA (which has received miles from AC, LH, and US as well as UA), AS (which has received miles from NW, DL, and CO as well as AS), WN, and B6.

Similar to my situation. AS (AS, DL, NW, AA), UA (UA, US, LH, AC) DL (CO have some orphan miles on DL, plus I rarely step onto a CO flight).

Rudi:

LH/LX/OS miles&more: 4'126'895 (most of them from that 'famous' swiss Coop Supoints peppermint tea promotion)
UA Mileage Plus 102'041
KLM/AF Flying Blue 72'421 (left over form that comping promotion: they comped my UA status and MileagePlus miles: just short of 1 Million then)
HHonors 54'488
Accor 12'164
Marriott 2'164
Hyatt 4'406
Starwood 4'701
Priority Club 12'416

Gisela (my wife):

LH/LX/OS miles&more: 333'209 (most of them from that 'famous' swiss Coop Supoints peppermint tea promotion)

All accumulated in the last year or so (except AMEX, building for 3 years):

Northwest: 330,000
Marriott: 130,000
SPG: 60,000
Radisson: 2,000,000 (thanks shutterfly :))
AMEX: 170,000

I'm a hoarder...

Tuff one...here're ballpark figures after my latest batch of redemption.

*A (SK): ~200K
ST (AF): ~200K
PriorityClub: ~250K
HHonors: ~ 70K
SPG: ~ 10K
Marriot: ~10 points

what does this have to do with earning/redeeming miles?

who cares?

I belong to too many. All are in the burn mode or have completed burning. I kept miles like a bank account until 2001 then burned them whenever possible.

American - active, burn mode, now down to 65,000
United - inactive, burn mode completed, orphan miles
Delta - active, burn mode, now at 80,000
Northwest - slow burn, now at 150,000 (highest balance 441,000, >700,000 earned)
Continental - inactive, burn mode, now at 25,000+
US Airways - active, but all burned to 10,000 mi. now
Southwest - active, they burn it for you every 16th credit
AirTran - inactive
Lufthansa - inactive, burn mode completed
Jet Blue - orphan miles
Midwest - orphan miles transferred to CO via Amtrak
Frontier - orphan miles, may transfer Amex points here, maybe not.
(Hilton) - many points, now on burn mode
(Holiday Inn) - not too many points
(Choice/Sleep Inn/Comfort Inn/etc) - enough points for redemption, did redeem a few times before
(Red Roof Inn) - inactive, did redeem in 2005
(Econolodge) - burning

CO - approx. 200K +/- tolerances. Had a ton more but used them on family.
AA - approx. 40k +/- tolerances

Why can't I resist these "What's your total?" forums???

AA, lifetime 2,366,770 balance 81,770
BA, avail 96,860
US, avail 168,460
UA, lifetime 22,662, balance 38,078
NW, total 150,986, balance 105,906
CO, avail 64,500
DL, earned 608,798, avail, 195,253
Priority Club balance 540,960 points
HHonors balance 187,322
Marriott Rewards 114,550
Goldpoints 66,035

-outoftown