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the_traveler Sep 15, 2005 8:25 am
Originally Posted by Family flyer
You can also do this with non-milehouds, such as a spouse.

This discussion is focused on iDine bonuses, but the tactic can also be used for topping off FF accounts. When I needed X amount to top off an account, I asked the waiter to charge one card for, say $20, and put the rest on another card linked to another account. No questions asked.
I've done this too with my sister's account. She had something like 24,948 miles in her Mileage Plus account. Since she does not fly very much, these miles were basically orphaned. So when dining, we used her idine CC, and her total climbed to 25,026 miles, and she used an award ticket!

26 orphaned miles is much better than just under 25K!

Den1KFlyer Sep 16, 2005 1:56 pm
Another way to use idine: I've got a dormant AA account, the last couple of years UA has given EQM (up to 6,000) for faxing active non-UA FF accounts. To get current activity, I just go to AA restaurant that month - instant activity. ;)

chauming Sep 17, 2005 12:05 am
Originally Posted by the_traveler
I've done this too with my sister's account. She had something like 24,948 miles in her Mileage Plus account. Since she does not fly very much, these miles were basically orphaned. So when dining, we used her idine CC, and her total climbed to 25,026 miles, and she used an award ticket!

26 orphaned miles is much better than just under 25K!
I'm pretty sure that UA would have given your sister the extra miles to get a 25,000 award if she asked politely.

chauming Sep 17, 2005 12:07 am
Originally Posted by Den1KFlyer
Another way to use idine: I've got a dormant AA account, the last couple of years UA has given EQM (up to 6,000) for faxing active non-UA FF accounts. To get current activity, I just go to AA restaurant that month - instant activity. ;)
Huh? I just don't understand.

IceTrojan Sep 17, 2005 12:11 am
Originally Posted by chauming
Huh? I just don't understand.
He's saying that he's keeping his AA account alive

1) by posting miles through iDine
2) for the purposes of sending it to UA for EQM.

Nice ploy... now if only AA did it also, for I have a UA account :D


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