After a couple years of serious hoarding, I came to the conclusion last year that I was going to start spending some of my miles and points before they lost even more value than they already had. Here's what I redeemed last year:
airline miles: 720,000 on AA and AS
hotel points: 250,000 on Hilton
airline miles: 720,000 on AA and AS
hotel points: 250,000 on Hilton
Miles: about 80000 on upgrades
and just spend 80000 on tickets to LAS (See thread in AA about that
)
Just remembered 125000 points for a concorde award too
Stickers: too many to count (over 50)
[This message has been edited by Brian-AAFlyer (edited 01-08-2003).]
and just spend 80000 on tickets to LAS (See thread in AA about that
)Just remembered 125000 points for a concorde award too
Stickers: too many to count (over 50)
[This message has been edited by Brian-AAFlyer (edited 01-08-2003).]
180,000 US for 2 biz class tickets to Sydney
40,000 US for 2 coach class tickets to Vegas
50,000 US for 2 coach class tickets to Vegas
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270,000 US miles
This year, expected to redeem a bunch of miles as soon as UA award redemption on US miles opens up for Hawaii...
40,000 US for 2 coach class tickets to Vegas
50,000 US for 2 coach class tickets to Vegas
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270,000 US miles
This year, expected to redeem a bunch of miles as soon as UA award redemption on US miles opens up for Hawaii...
redeemed:
* 600'000 UA/Mileage Plus miles (UA upgrades, award tickets on SQ)
* 200'000 KLM/Flying/Durchman (KLM award flights)
* 50'000 swiss/Qualiflyer (2 inner European business class award tickets)
* 520'000 (only possible because Senators are allowed to go negativ by 160'000 miles) LH/NG miles&more: many upgrades from eco to business or business to first for Gisela and I (includes upgrades on Lauda to/from Australia)
* 600'000 UA/Mileage Plus miles (UA upgrades, award tickets on SQ)
* 200'000 KLM/Flying/Durchman (KLM award flights)
* 50'000 swiss/Qualiflyer (2 inner European business class award tickets)
* 520'000 (only possible because Senators are allowed to go negativ by 160'000 miles) LH/NG miles&more: many upgrades from eco to business or business to first for Gisela and I (includes upgrades on Lauda to/from Australia)
2002
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- 100K AA: 2 F tickets to Hawaii
- 100K HH: ALON
- 160K UA: 2 J tickets to Europe
2003 (Redeemed but yet to travel)
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- 70K UA: 2 coach to Hawaii
- 250K MR: 087 Award (1 week at Kauai Marriott, 120K AA miles)
- 140K AA: 2 biz HNL-HKG on JAL
- 150K HH: GLONP in HKG
Itching to spend for '03 - '04 travel
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- 160K US
- 50K UA
I have lots of DL, AA, and NW that I will continue to hoard. I am almost completely out of the hotel programs and will no longer aggressively pursue hotel points.
I feel lucky that I've been able to spend almost one million points, for the most part getting the dates/routes I wanted and maximizing most stopover allowances.
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- 100K AA: 2 F tickets to Hawaii
- 100K HH: ALON
- 160K UA: 2 J tickets to Europe
2003 (Redeemed but yet to travel)
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- 70K UA: 2 coach to Hawaii
- 250K MR: 087 Award (1 week at Kauai Marriott, 120K AA miles)
- 140K AA: 2 biz HNL-HKG on JAL
- 150K HH: GLONP in HKG
Itching to spend for '03 - '04 travel
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- 160K US
- 50K UA
I have lots of DL, AA, and NW that I will continue to hoard. I am almost completely out of the hotel programs and will no longer aggressively pursue hotel points.
I feel lucky that I've been able to spend almost one million points, for the most part getting the dates/routes I wanted and maximizing most stopover allowances.
2002:
360k AA miles for 4 C-class seats on CX to BKK (with/for friends)
100k Hilton points for 3 nights in SFO
89k Starwood points for nights in Sevilla, Princeville, and Bangkok
100k AA miles for 2 F-class seats to HNL
10k UA miles for 2 interisland seats on Aloha
60k UA miles for 2 y-class seats on Mexicana to Cancun for friends
260k DL miles for 4 seats (2-y and 2-C) to Madrid (with/for friends)
Planned so far for 2003:
360k AA miles for 4 C-class seats to Madrid, Warsaw, and out of Prague on AA/BA
60k Starwood points for hotel nights in Spain
[This message has been edited by aflyer (edited 01-06-2003).]
360k AA miles for 4 C-class seats on CX to BKK (with/for friends)
100k Hilton points for 3 nights in SFO
89k Starwood points for nights in Sevilla, Princeville, and Bangkok
100k AA miles for 2 F-class seats to HNL
10k UA miles for 2 interisland seats on Aloha
60k UA miles for 2 y-class seats on Mexicana to Cancun for friends
260k DL miles for 4 seats (2-y and 2-C) to Madrid (with/for friends)
Planned so far for 2003:
360k AA miles for 4 C-class seats to Madrid, Warsaw, and out of Prague on AA/BA
60k Starwood points for hotel nights in Spain
[This message has been edited by aflyer (edited 01-06-2003).]
40K for a transoceanic DL upgrade.
75K in expiring Qualiflyer miles for 3 AA roundtrips (SEA-JFK) for my brother's family.
10K in UA miles for a domestic upgrade.
I tranferred about 90K Hilton points to UA, since Hilton threatened to expire them.
[This message has been edited by opus17 (edited 01-06-2003).]
75K in expiring Qualiflyer miles for 3 AA roundtrips (SEA-JFK) for my brother's family.
10K in UA miles for a domestic upgrade.
I tranferred about 90K Hilton points to UA, since Hilton threatened to expire them.
[This message has been edited by opus17 (edited 01-06-2003).]
