Earning miles
 

I am sure this is here but I am not sure where. If someone wants to start earning or accumilating miles - how do they start?

fly, buy w/cc, stay at hotels etc etc.....perhaps some more info from you will help....do you fly, if so on what airlines....good luck....

w/81 posts, you should have some ideas...

No, but my daughter who is 17 and in college has been working and saving her money because she wants to travel everywhere!!!! I am sure she doesnt know about FF Miles but I would love to learn and encourage her to do same.

For students, I recommend to enroll in United College Plus. UA will give 10K graduation bonus miles for each level/degree (i.e. bachelor's, master, doctorate/Ph.D) with mail-in transcripts. Not sure if they still offer bonus incentive with volunteer/community work (like 500 hrs or something). I believe Chase/UA offers credit cards to college students as well. Much smaller new account bonus (2K miles or something). But it may just work for young students without credit history to start from somewhere.

Go to our UA Forum and search for college plus, you'll see some threads that I personally had posted in. :D

Too bad there's no active MP refer-a-friend bonus promo that I am aware of right now. Otherwise, I could refer your daughter. ;)

Our own pgary's website referenced in post #3 does have sections for students. You should check it out (or have your daughter check it out). It sounds like she's a FTer-in-the-making. She should start reading FT herself!:)

I would love to see a response to this question. :D

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There is a MP visa refer-a-friend program.

Personally I prefer American Airlines, as it's much easier to earn lifetime elite flying status with them (they count ALL miles accumulated, while UA only counts flight miles).

Doesn't cost much to maintain status. I've been keeping Platinum for about $2600 per year.

I hope to clear 2MM and lifetime Platinum by the end of 2009, but my rate of progress is not typical (though nearly all my MRs were same-day turn arounds on weekends, so it is doable by a student).

Steve

Thank you all - I appreciate it.