Onepass/Delta miles please help
Jul 25, 2008 | 11:29 am
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Onepass/Delta miles please help
I have 35k Onepass miles in my account, 10,000 Onepass miles in my son's account, and 10k miles in Delta Skymiles. I have very little cash and need to conserve what little I do have so that I can make a fresh start (maybe) when I get home to the States.. I am wanting to fly from the U.K. (England) to the United States (DFW, LIT, TXK, or FSM). I understand that there are programs that will allow me to condense the miles into one account. Does anyone have any advice? Failing that, if I do have to buy a ticket without use of any of the miles, does anyone have an idea where to/how to do that? A one way ticket is fine; I just have to get out of here as soon as possible. Thank you for any help at all.
Jul 25, 2008 | 12:10 pm
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I just played around with http://www.continental.com/web/en-US...ardTravel.aspx and learned that you can't (or I don't know how to) book just one way on onepass miles. Its 50,000 miles.
One way might be to get the Continental Airlines World Mastercard (earns 20,000 miles on your first purchase --- http://www.continental.com/web/en-US...reditcard.aspx). That plus the 35,000 miles you already have gets you up to 55,000 onepass miles, enabling you to book a saverpass ticket to the states.
One way might be to get the Continental Airlines World Mastercard (earns 20,000 miles on your first purchase --- http://www.continental.com/web/en-US...reditcard.aspx). That plus the 35,000 miles you already have gets you up to 55,000 onepass miles, enabling you to book a saverpass ticket to the states.
Jul 25, 2008 | 2:40 pm
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Looks like you can purchase up to 25% of the miles you need at $32 per thousand miles (http://www.continental.com/web/en-US.../buymiles.aspx). So 25% of 50,000 miles is 12,500 miles at a cost of $400. That gets you to 48,000 miles. There are all kinds of "nickel and dime" type promotions to grab an extra 2,000 miles. That said, though, you could purchase a one way for around $860 (per AA's website), so the $400 buying miles option seems a bit expensive.
I don't think Continental trades on points.com, or I would suggest that too.
I don't think Continental trades on points.com, or I would suggest that too.
Jul 25, 2008 | 3:09 pm
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If you can wait to leave until August 25, I see roundtrips LGW-DFW for US$622 (you could throw away the return).
The other thing to do would be to try to find a cheap oneway (or throwaway return ticket) to New York or any other US gateway and then redeem a 25K domestic award to get to Texas.
The other thing to do would be to try to find a cheap oneway (or throwaway return ticket) to New York or any other US gateway and then redeem a 25K domestic award to get to Texas.
Jul 25, 2008 | 3:11 pm
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Do you have any SPG points (even though it's an unfavorable transfer ratio)? I would be worried about finding 50K seats even if I had the points, so the throw-away ticketing option might be palatable. However, if you try to claim FF miles, you would violate the FF T&Cs and could lose your other miles (if you have any on that airline).
Last edited by icurhere2; Jul 25, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Jul 25, 2008 | 3:18 pm
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Where were U last year, Pavlovs 
?!
Your son's CO miles can be transferred, then as now, into an Amtrak Guest Rewards acct. 1:1. Last year, that 10K AGR could be transferred into your CO fee-free
, giving U 45K CO all in your acct.!
Too bad AGR changed the rules for the worse on Jan. 1 & on May 1/ 2008
! Now only bona-fide train customers are allowed to transfer out of AGR. See FT's Amtrak forum for details.
?!Your son's CO miles can be transferred, then as now, into an Amtrak Guest Rewards acct. 1:1. Last year, that 10K AGR could be transferred into your CO fee-free
, giving U 45K CO all in your acct.!Too bad AGR changed the rules for the worse on Jan. 1 & on May 1/ 2008
! Now only bona-fide train customers are allowed to transfer out of AGR. See FT's Amtrak forum for details.
Jul 25, 2008 | 3:23 pm
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