Splitting the check ?? multiple 250 bonuses??
Sep 15, 2005 | 8:25 am
#16
Join Date: Apr 2005
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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.
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.
26 orphaned miles is much better than just under 25K!
Sep 16, 2005 | 1:56 pm
#17
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Denver, CO
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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. 
Sep 17, 2005 | 12:05 am
#18
Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Posts: 292
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!
26 orphaned miles is much better than just under 25K!
Sep 17, 2005 | 12:07 am
#19
Join Date: Feb 1999
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Posts: 292
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.
Sep 17, 2005 | 12:11 am
#20
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Originally Posted by chauming
Huh? I just don't understand.
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
