What U do with your miles
Oct 18, 2002 | 11:52 am
#16
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Falkirk, Scotland,VS Red, BA Gold, HH Diamond,UK Amex Plat
Programs: Master of the Privy Purse des Muccis
Posts: 19,263
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....!
Seriously,
Saving mine to use on VS Upper Class return (100k from LON-West Coast USA)
Regards
TBS
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....!
Seriously,
Saving mine to use on VS Upper Class return (100k from LON-West Coast USA)
Regards
TBS
Oct 18, 2002 | 12:15 pm
#17
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Chicago....
Posts: 527
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.
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.
Oct 18, 2002 | 12:21 pm
#18
Join Date: Sep 2002
Programs: Mucci Gold Class
Posts: 2,045
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.
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.
Oct 18, 2002 | 12:23 pm
#19
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Seattle, WA
Programs: No one cares
Posts: 7,618
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.
lala
Oct 18, 2002 | 8:06 pm
#20
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Monterey, California
Programs: Affiliated with all, participate in some
Posts: 2,194
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.
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.
Oct 18, 2002 | 8:24 pm
#21
Join Date: Jul 2000
Posts: 470
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.
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.
Oct 18, 2002 | 8:38 pm
#22
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Flyover Country, USA, NW Silver, Hilton Gold
Posts: 518
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.
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.
Oct 18, 2002 | 9:16 pm
#23
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Santa Monica, CA, USA
Posts: 1,013
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
The United rep. suggested that I should at least get a dinner out of the deal