S.P.A.M. A guide to getting Miles and Points
 

In an effort to show new FT users where they can maximize their miles and points earning, I have compiled this list in which all the major earning programs are listed.

Any suggestions are appreciated ;)




Airline Shopping Portals

• Delta SkyMiles Shopping
• United Mileage Plus Mall
• Continental ShopOnePass
• U.S. Airways Dividend Miles Shopping
• Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Shopping
• British Airways Shopping
• AAdvantage Shopping

Hotel Shopping Portals

• Marriott Rewards Mall

Sites with alternative currencies that can be exchanged to Miles or Points

• MyPoints
• AirMilesMart
• ClickRewards (no longer active)
• MileSource (no longer active)
• MilesMall (no longer active)
• SkyMall
• greenpoints

Credit Cards that earn you miles or points

Airline Cards

• Skymiles American Express
• American Airlines Citi AAdvantage Mastercard
• Continental Airlines Chase Visa
• United Airlines

Hotel Cards

• Hilton Honors Visa
• Hilton Honors American Express
• Starwood American Express :-:FT Favorite :-:
• Marriott Visa

Cards with points

• American Express
• Diners Club
• My Points Citibank credit card
• Goldpoints Visa

(Please visit the following section, as they would have the most current and upto date information on programs and bonuses)


Sites that point you to new offers and ways of earning more miles.

• Mileage Workshop
• SmarterLiving
• Free Frequent Flyer Miles(courtesy of FT's very own pgary)
• Rewards Canada
• Ronald's Crossreference guide
• $drawer
• frequentflyerbonuses
• http://www.andrewcram.com (courtesy of FT's very own ANDREWCX)

Like to go out to eat? Or looking to staying at a hotel that doesn't belong to a loyalty program? Try Rewards Network (formerly Idine), in all it's different programs. Only one Credit Card per program can be enrolled in each program

Please make sure you visit the new idine forum to see the latest deals and promotions

• Rewards Network Main Program
• American Airlines
• Delta Skymiles
• United Airlines
• Northwest
• MyPoints
• Upromise
• Continental
• British Airways

Earning miles or points by filling our surveys

• Opinion Place (AA miles or AOL credit, see below)
• e-rewards

When everything else fails, these are places that give cash back or save for college

• ebates
• Upromise

Want to do surveys, and receive something for your time

• Zoom Rewards
• Epoll

Check the stickies that have been posted in FT

• American Airlines
• Hilton Honors
• United Airlines

Please let me know if any of the above links are broken.Phil

Continental
http://www.continental.com/onepass/earn/shopping/

Usairways
http://www.dividendmilesonlinerewards.com

If merchant does not participate at any of the above, try the follwing for cash back

www.ebates.com

I participate in Zoom Rewards - nothing miles related - but quick two minute surveys about once a week for low-cost items in return. I've gotten a free juicer & a flexible mini-tripod in the past year (value = about 35 bucks total) and am working towards a device that will let me use my portable DVD players' MP3 function and listen to it over an FM frequency - finally - an MP3 player for the car...

Good idea for a thread, JFE!

http://www.mileageplanshoppingmall.com/

http://www.milesmall.com/

www.greenpoints.com


[This message has been edited by CutStyle (edited Mar 11, 2004).]

Great thread topic, Jay Eff Eee!

Actually there's another earning opportunity. If you're an AOL user go to AOL keyword: OpinionPlace, where you can earn up to $4.50 in credit towards your monthly membership fee. I just qualied for a supposedly 15-minute survey (more like 5 minutes) for a $2.25 credit. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by essxjay (edited Mar 11, 2004).]

Northwest Idine:

http://www.diningformiles.idine.com

For the "Sites that point you to new offers and ways of earning more miles"

Rewards Canada

bump

Another bump http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/wink.gif

Another bump, hopefully with the new FT we can make this topic "sticky"

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif

Thank you jfe!!!!! {SMACK}

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LendingTree
 

Don't forget you can also earn miles if you submit through a partnership program with LendingTree.com

http://www.lendingtree.com/stm/partners.asp

Thanks for this, jfe.

I am a new member here, so WOW! Just what I needed! ^

Thanks for the info
 

Is there also a link for HP?

For which program?

HP = America West. I checked their site, and didn't notice anyhting about earning miles to shop. HPs credit card info is here.

I thought he meant something along the lines of Idine :p

I was pretty sure it didn't stand for Hewlett Packard ;)

Thanks for the help

One more idine
 

I didn't see the link to the continental [*]idine listed
http://www.continental.com/onepass/e...passdining.asp

Two corrections. First, there is also a British Air iDine site http://ecdining.idine.com/ that should be added. Second, you are allowed multiple credit cards in all iDine programs (at least you can for United, American, and British Air).

What I meant to say is that you can participate in multiple programs, but you can only have one credit card linked to each one ;)

I will add the British Airways link

Thanks

Deleted as the site has been discontinued

Mileage workshop hasn't been updated for over a year and is fundementally useless now. Also you might like to add my frequent flyer comparison table site (Frequent Flyer Resources) to this post.

www.andrewcram.com/frequentflyer.html

Done, thanks :)

Added the WebFlyer Mileage Mall :)

GREAT LIST

i have a delta amex, can anyone here tell me if by shopping thru skymilesshopping.com that i'll earn an additional mile per dollar?? i know it's a dumb question but any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance:)

Yes it will, whatever you spend on skymileshopping is on top of whatever you receive via your credit card

Skymileshopping + Credit Card

thanks jfe, sounds like an outstanding deal, happy holidays:)

Nice summary. How often do you update it?

As soon as people post something in here ;)

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place to earn AA MILES
 

If anyone wants to see if they qualify for surveys you can earn AA miles here at http://www.opinionplace.com/

I go there everyweek and take little surveys and get 75 to 150 miles each week I know it isnt much but a miles is a miles these days

It's on the list :)

You can also receive AA miles by taking part in e-rewards opportunities.

Some suggestions from me...

Could you create a new section for "online shopping comparison tools"? Would be useful to list WebFlyer's comparison tool, my site, Ronald's cross reference etc (you could even go so far as to list the programs that each covers - see http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=432130 for the portals covered by my online comparison table)

As for programs - your tables are missing several shopping portals including:

Aloha Airlines
Amtrak
America West
Hawaiian Aitlines
Priority Club

Could you rename my site as "AndrewCram.com - rewards comparison tables" with the URL of http://www.andrewcram.com ?

Also for the credit cards section you might want to make note of the comparison tables for the different types of credit cards on my site as well as the special offers on FreeFrequentFlyerRewards.com etc (and the "which card should I choose" thread on FT). Basically there are 67 current US personal Credit and Debit cards directly linked to an Airline that are currently available, 8 hotel cards, and many many more with points - not to mention business cards, cards for non-US Residents etc, all in all more than really fits in the scope of this thread I think...

Oh, and a final minor comment - since you make a point of saying FreeFrequentFlyerMiles.com is courtesy of pgary maybe you can make a similar note about my site being courtesy of me?

Anyway, thanks for the thread.

ANDREWCX

Looks like the mother of all referral sites.

What did you use to make it? Dreamweaver or somethng like that?

thanks a lot!
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Hi,

Just a note that my shopping comparison tools (much expanded) moved from AndrewCram.com to RewardsDB.com in May. Would it be possible to update the link and the description?

If you look at RewardsDB you will see a whole range of tools for earning miles/points/cashback for many activities etc.

Andrew

Just noticed the link to the Idine (Rewards Network) Continental program is broken.

Also you may want to add Midwest Airlines is now part of Rewards Network.

Thanks for all the info! I just go to the first post to link into all my programs and see if my dines have posted.