Organizing Frequent Flyer Miles
 

How do you all organize all of your frequent flyer miles/programs?

It's pretty overwhelming to keep track of which miles need to post by what date for each program.

Up until now, I have not kept very good records, but I was thinking that there must be a good way to organize things so that too many miles don't "fall through the cracks."

Fire_Fly

MileTracker, developed by FTer Mike Hoeffner. It's wonderful and free!

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Vasant

MileTracker rules

If you use miletracker and are satisfied with its functionality, please consider making a donation via the donate button in the tool itself. I don't know Mike myself. I'm a very satisfied user and thats why posting this reply.

[This message has been edited by venkat (edited 09-22-2003).]

I second the motion. Keeping MileTracker updated must take a lot of effort...everytime an airline or hotel chain changes its web site, Mike has to change MileTracker.

It's great software!

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Middle_Seat

thank you for the lead....I just downloaded the program and I love it already!!!

DONATE,DONATE,DONATE !!!!
Mike does an outstanding job. With 31 accounts between my wife and I, it would VERY difficult to track them all without this free program. THANK YOU Mike

I'll add to everyone else...the program (miletracker.com) is great, it really works, and it's free...what's wrong with this picture! Donate...if it goes fee, i'd pay gladly

I've been using www.yodlee.com to keep tack of accounts and it seems to work very well.

Miletracker doesn't work on my Mac.

MileTracker needs to get with the times. Java is only available with Sun Microsystems now, but MileTracker still requires Microsoft VM which was pulled by Microsoft.

Unless you have grandfathered in an installation of Microsoft VM, there is no legitamite way to get MileTracker to run.

It works for me on a Win2K build from about 2001 with SP3 installed. I guess the virtual machine's in there somewhere...

It's great, BTW.

[This message has been edited by notsosmart (edited 09-23-2003).]

I use Miletracker on XP without issue. Java runs on any and every computer you can think of. Here is the link for the Java Virtual Machine download:

http://java.sun.com/webapps/download...?BundleId=8938

And like Miletracker, the VM is a free download.

Running Mileage Tracker problem free on WXP Home problem free. Have used for about 2 years, 20 plus accounts and works GREAT.

Miletracker is great for just tracking miles.

If you want a more generic consolidation tool, however, try yodlee.com They OEM their solution to most high usage websites and are highly respected in silicon Valley. The risk is that you are saving critical information on their servers.

Inside Flyer just did a write up of several tools to manage miles.

http://www.insideflyer.com/articles/...e.php?key=1276

I use my own Excell sheet (for past, current and future activities)

Date, activity-details, basic miles, Program-1 miles, Program-1 status-miles, Program-2 miles etc. etc.

Different colours for credited, done/pending, planned.

The Excell sheet is easily copied/send from/to my two Macs (one at Wengen, on at Uitikon) to my Palm too (Bluetooth).

Are there any of these programs that allow you to reconcile statements, as you would with a credit card or checking account? They all seem to show your balances in one place, but to be able to rconcile is critical. I have gained back many thousands of miles and hotel points by comparing my statements to actual activity, but I gave up on this a few years back as it was too time consuming.

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here's another vote for yodlee. i've been using them for 4 years with good results. i just wish they would fix the on again/off again problems with the United server.

diva -- two services, MileageManager and MaxMiles, provide reconciliation features. Of course, in contrast to MileTracker and Yodlee, these are both subscription services. A MileageManager subscription runs $14.95/year and MaxMiles runs $29.95/year. Both do offer free trial memberships though, so you could check out the reconcile feature before signing up to see if it works for you.

Hope this helps.

For some reason miletracker can't get at my AMEX MR points. The username and password are fine but it just doesn't check them.

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