Hi,

I'm saving my miles to spend a wqeek on Sir Richard Bransons private island ( Necker Island).Only need 850k to go as it is 1 million miles....! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Seriously,
Saving mine to use on VS Upper Class return (100k from LON-West Coast USA)

Regards
TBS

Necker Island.... If memory serves me right, that is very close to Virgin Gorda in the BVI, right?

You may want to check out Biras Creek. What an amazing place!!!

I use my miles for 2 main reasons: 1) If I need to go somewhere on a moments notice and the fare is out of control. 2) First class trip ORD-CDG or LHR.

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Upgrades upgrades upgrades

Award miles cost about $0.02 each to acquire. If you upgrade coach tickets long-haul you get up to about $0.40-worth of airline ticket for them. So the most 'bang-for-your-buck' is upgrading from coach.

On AA, I use them mostly for upgrades from Y to C.

On AS, we haven't used them in a while. My partner earns about 4000 miles a week for her 160 mile commute. Less than half of year of commuting gets her a nice BC ticket on BA.

We do gift the 'rents with BC tickets to Europe on occasion.

Right now though, we keep them under our pillows for safekeeping. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

lala

This is the year that the three years of being a Flyertalk devotee is really paying off. I found this site a few days after mailing off my first 50,000 miles worth of Healthy Choice pudding vouchers in May 99. I thought the pudding was a cheap way to get a trip to Barbados. Now I am earning and burning >700,000 miles/year and all my travel is leisure or mileage runs.

UA First class SFO-AMS for my wife and I = 200,000 miles burned. The 55,555 Star Alliance promo was > 400,000 earned.

BA First Class this December-January holiday for SFO-Geneva is 190,000 burned. Diners Club promo for BA and AA miles transfers put >100,000 in those accounts.

Helped relatives with last minute international tickets.

The entire year has been upgraded except for the $135 Lufthansa Denver-Frankfurt tickets last April and the United Express flights in California and the short flights I did on the Star carriers for those 55,555 bonus miles.

Travel has been very good to me this year.

I have sold about 3/4th's of my miles over the years. Of the times that my wife and I have flown, I usually purchase a coach ticket, then use my miles to upgrade to FC. Wife unit gets FC too, of course.

If the flight is less than a couple of hours we have just flown coach. As to flying on business, I get bumped to FC 80-plus percent of the time. Hence, it is worth it to chance getting stuck in steerage versus using miles to upgrade.

My husband complained that I save all these miles but we never use them. Well last winter he needed surgery in FL. We were able to get free roundtrip flights on NW thanks to all those miles I had been saving.

He hasn't said a word about my miles stash since then!

Now I am stockpiling delta miles for business class tickets to Europe, hopefully, this May.

I just used 25000 miles to fly an old friend (and Angel fan) out for the World Series. Booked yesterday for flight today - round trip was upwards of $1600.

The United rep. suggested that I should at least get a dinner out of the deal http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif