How many accounts do you have?
 

How many accounts do you have with a single airline?

Some offers, such as the 20K UA visa or the 25K DL Amex seem like they are great ways to get almost free tickets. Do you guys start separate accounts to get these offers (with some, I understand that you can keep reapplying for so the examples above may not be good examles)?

If so, can you combine them & do the airlines raise hell about it when you do?

Just curious...

After 521 posts, you should know that you cannot legally open multiple FF accounts with the same airline! http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

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Vasant

playing by the rules and comon sense I have one acount with each airline ..

I have too many accounts with too many airlines... http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif
silver

of course i know that - but the bhatnasx that lives at my address is different from the guy that lives at my parents house who is different than the guy that lives at my office who is different than the guy that lives at my sisters house, isn't he?

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Sure http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/biggrin.gif, but how would you then combine the accounts (which was part of your original question)?

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Vasant

Which is why I was asking the experts here on FT!

I figure bhatnasx can apply for as many DL 25K promos & UA 20K promos as bhatnasx has addresses for - at the very least, that'd be a few free tix here & there - but I was wondering if address changes worked & if it was possible to combine - I recall seeing some link somewhere on CO's website about combining accounts, but I'm not sure if I recall that correctly. Besides, why have multiple CO accounts? http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Are you referring strictly to credit card offers?

You will get yourself into credit trouble if you start applying under many different address but one SSN. Not major trouble - it isn't illegal, but it may lower your score, and if future creditors look closely, they may be puzzled by this activity.

Also, it isn't a good idea to have a whole bunch of open credit lines. A high credit capacity actually lowers your score, whether you use it or not.

For being "notsosmart," that's a very good point.

Actully I once accidently had two American accounts. Unbeknownced to me, my father had accidently signed me up for two accounts and I only discovered it when going through some old files I found an AAdvantage card with 595V2V0 on it. I knew my number was nothing like this so I called American and found I had 1,250 miles in the account, I had my two consolidated, no biggie.

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I had two AA accounts as well, but that was actually their issue. When getting the Citibank card, they missed that I had an existing account and issued me a new one. I just sent in the two numbers and asked that they be merged into my original account.

It wasn't intentional, but I guess it happens with some frequency, just guessing the number of people that wouldn't remember they had signed up the first time.