UsingMiles.com
 

Just wanted to share a new website find:

https://www.usingmiles.com/

I haven't tested it out much but it looks promising.

They have been around for a while, but under a different name.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/miles...ch-awards.html

Though there's not much useful info in that thread other then the date it was written.

Just got an e-mail today that I've been selected to use the service. Registered a few of my programs and it pulled in all the account info. So far, so good. I think it's a great idea and looking forward to checking it out further.

If you want an invite, PM your email address to me. If you sign up, nothing of value is given to me.

Or try this site:

http://www.usingmiles.com/netted

UsingMiles.com
 

Seems like a useful site. It tracks miles and hotel points (credit cards soon) and has a booking engine. My one try got some good prices. It also MAY (I did not check this out) check award availability.

It is invitation only. If you want and invite, PM me your email address.

There is a thread on this in travel technology (http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...l#post14899233) but I doubt that many will see it there.

I have no interest in the site and get nothing from referrals. I am not endorsing it beyond saying looks interesting.

Seems intriguing, but I don't know that I would be comfortable giving them my user name and password to my loyalty/FF programs. For those who store CC details in their FF accounts (I don't), I cannot imagine that they would want to disclose their login information.

Not impressed with booking engine's approach to award availability. Basically it just shows possibilities and when selected dumps you in plan's web site.

Has anyone else used it and had a better experience?

Understood. Recent testing left me convinced that it can track miles but I am not as sure about its other functions.

randy
 

There's only one frequent flyer technology I trust to manage my 17 million miles -- UsingMiles.com
-- Randy Petersen, Founder of FlyerTalk

btw. randy is a testimonial, i would guess that randy did invest in that company :) or why would he act as a testimonial.

if i knew flyertalk is involved, i would be more comfortable in storing some of my not so important accounts there.

dp

Lifehacker did a post on this website yesterday.

These sites are popping up like flies - awardwallet, yodlee, gomiles, accruw, tripit, usingmiles - sounds ripe for a comparison.

If someone can PM an invite, I may try to write something up - I think I've joined the others out of curiosity.

Did you do a write-up/review of these sites? Or is there a thread elsewhere on FT or even an external review?

I've been interested in service like this but been wary of trusting them enough to give my account information.

I actually like the site, i tried award wallet, and various others, but I actually like the interface that usingmiles offers. Not for booking, but keeping track of the various progrsms. I only recently noticed that there was a testimonal from randy!

How does this compare with ANX, KVS, EF, etc?

concern with confiential information
 

I started putting my confidential information in the sight and it just didn't feel right. I sent an email to [email protected] and my email bounced back. How do you really know where your information maybe going?

I finally got time to start using it, after playing with AwardWallet and GoMiles for a while, and I'm unimpressed so far. My initial session of trying to load the 20 programs available (I have 28 in AW) yielded an hour of frustration, 8 programs loaded multiple times, and two hung browsers. Some more work tonight to get all 20 in and 8 say "Hold tight, this program will be available soon!". And one of the "hold tight, coming soon" is Midwest Miles, which no longer exists.

It also tells me that I'm somehow CP status on USAir with 509 miles. (hint - several digits are missing). I'll see how their support is - I emailed GoMiles with a glitch not long ago and it was fixed in a matter of hours. First I need to figure out how to report the glitch - it's listed as a Beta product but there's no obvious "report a bug" feature (maybe I'm spoiled by the Firefox 4 beta reporting features I've been using)

I've yet to play with the Alerts for Find Flights functions, but so far it's way behind AW and GM as an award program tracking tool.

EDIT: I just noticed two of the hotel programs are also missing multiple digits, so it has 9 programs correct, and 3 of those are zero balance that may or may not actually be right.

Just got a invite to start using this a few weeks back and decided to join.

Very nice interface, I'm not sure I'll use it to make any bookings, but I like the program view at-a-glance for all my FF memberships. Nice tool.

Does anyone have more recent experience with this tool?

I am particularly interested in using it for award travel searching (so I wondering things like do the search function, and the booking link, work well? can it search multiple dates? will it do automated searching with email notification?).

They are asking for $30 for a yearly subscription, which isn't going to break the bank, but also isn't cheap for a product they describe as still being in beta, so any additional info. on whether people have found it reliable and useful would be appreciated.

Didn't see any more recent information. Anybody did give it a shot and was it useful ?

Please enjoy a free Premier subscription on us! This will save you from spending the $29.99.

https://www.usingmiles.com/account/signup?pc=KPfree

Thank you for the kindness shown to FlyerTalkers!

Free UsingMiles Premier Account
 

I had posted on my blog earlier tonight a link offering a free premier membership for UsingMiles.com.

You would need to use THIS LINK in order to get the free premier membership. Otherwise you can see the post on my site, but I won't force you to! :)

Please note that I do not get any compensation from UsingMiles.com for offering this opportunity.

How well does this work for BA avios or DL skymiles on their partners for travel?

Free Lifetime Premier Membership at UsingMiles.com
 

Free Lifetime Premier Membership at UsingMiles.com

Similar to AwardWallet and other mileage/point tracking websites out there. Normally $29.99/year for Premier but free lifetime.

Courtesy of Lufthansa Flyer:
https://www.usingmiles.com/account/s...=2-2&pc=LFLYER

Listed Benefits:

- Manage all of your loyalty programs in one place, including United Airlines, Marriott Rewards, Groupon and more!
- Stay organized with monthly eStatements, summarizing your personal activity and balances
- Search for travel with cash in all your programs!

Source:
http://boardingarea.com/blogs/lufthansaflyer/

jmschn op

Anyone see any advantages of this over Award Wallet? I added a few accounts and it worked about the same, but the interface isn't as nice.

Usingmiles Website
 

The link doesn't seem to work. Was this a time-sensitive offer?

Be wary of UsingMiles, I don't know if I'd trust a website with a founder that plead guilty to fraud.
http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-c...ws/ci_18203847

I signed up for a free account but no American and Southwest is a manually entry, my two primary airlines. (Incidentally, their website said that they support both.)

any more info on this tool? Comparing to others, how is it? Good? Bad?

Same offer via eBags
 

I just received the same, free lifetime Premier membership offer after a recent purchase from eBags.

I just signed up on the first link ,

probably will not use it that much , but its good to have and FREE

thanks for posting it

Can't add an AA account!!
 

I signed up, using my eBags link. It is nice and tidy to see (almost all of) my balances in one place.

I am disappointed to see that I could not add my AA account. There is not even an option to add it manually.

I signed up through FrequentMiler's free lifetime Premier membership. In case anyone else is doing this also, I could not get my Ink Bold and Sapphire cards to load. I emailed them and got this quick response back:

From: Keith
Subject: Chase ink bold and sapphire preferred not connecting

Hello Toni,

The problem is on our end. We’ve been having trouble with the Chase accounts for a while now. I would suggest manually tracking your Chase card until we have a fix. I will alert you when it’s back up and running automatically.

Sorry for the troubles.

Thanks,
Keith

Can I expact for a some kind of a review?

FREE PREMIUM UsingMiles Account FOR LIFE
 

Thanks VeryGoodPoints!

http://first2board.com/verygoodpoint...free-for-life/

Has a $29.99 annual cost.... now free for life. Just click!

Unfortunately doesn't track American Airlines miles, so it's half as useful to me as it should be.

You're welcome! I'm glad UsingMiles was happy to give them away!

Thanks for sharing the information.

Unfortunately, I just tried setting this up and it doesn't seem to know when miles expire. For my USAirways account, it is showing that my miles expired last November and I don't see a way to correct that because it logs into my account at USAirways and retrieves the info.

For my United account, I had to enter all the information manually. Fortunately, I could retrieve the information from my AwardWallet account which seems to know everything and is correct.

I think I'll stick with AwardWallet unless I'm missing something.

Well, United no longer works here. At some point, when United pulled out of Award Wallet, this was their "official partner." No more.

Any new feedback on using UsingMiles.com website/program?

Is anybody using this?