NJ airline miles

[RCA]

How many miles could one rack up if you live in domicile. Would it be enough for a pair of dom. roundtrips for two

 

[Mach92]

How many miles could one rack up if you live in domicile. Would it be enough for a pair of dom. roundtrips for two

It depends on what domicile. Dallas based is on AA about 80% of the time. Out of Columbus its everyone AA,USAIR, UA, SWA, DL, ETC so hard to rack up miles on one airline. PBI DL most of the time and LAX same as Columbus everyone. I do about 60K AA every year so yes its possible.

 

[WrknStff]

It also helps to double dip with your airline miles at Hilton hotels. Go with the 500 miles per stay option, not the mile per dollar because we get very low corporate rates. You should be able to get enough for one ticket a year just from those points.

 

[Guitar Guy]

Double-dipping helps but sadly, in 2007, Hilton points won't be redeemable for airline miles from what I've been told.

Mach92 is right. I'm based in CMH and there's no one dominant carrier here, so we see everyone. That translates into a few miles on a lot of carriers instead of a lot of miles on one carrier.

 

[RNObased]

You may get the miles, but good luck putting them to use. Last time I tried to get a seat on a airliner with miles, it was ugly. The number of restrictions and seats available made it a very unpleasent experience. Sometimes the miles are just worthless.

 

[Twotter76]

Yup im running into that right now. Trying to book a ticket to HNL on Delta with my miles but I can only find availibity one way. Unless of course you are willing to double the amount of miles required to get the ticket, which I am not. Deltas FF program sucks!

 

[SAEflyer]

I've found that they are best used for upgrades. My wife and I pay full coach fair and get the first class upgrades. Its way cheaper than a ticket, but i'd much rather sit up front.

 

[niteflyr]

If you are looking for a domestic trip and willing to board like a herd of cattle, SWA is a great way to get free tickets. Use them as your double dip airline at hiltons and you get a .5 credit every stay, and when they run a promotion you sometimes get 1 credit per stay. 16 credit is a free ticket anywhere, and MUCH easier to book than any other airline. Did the Delta to HNL a while ago and wound up coughing up twice the points to go, that sucks. Hilton points are becoming more worthless too, 35,000 for about any1 night stay, even some garden inns.

 

[psysicx]

How many miles do you need to claim a ticket? Or how do they calculate the miles?

 

[WrknStff]

If you are lucky enough to get an elite status on an airline it makes it a lot easier to use the points there. I have silver elite on USAir for example and that means that there aren't any blackout dates at all for using frequent flyer miles. When I try to use American, all those blackout dates apply so it's a lot tougher.

 

[Fozzy]

Sell them. There are company out there that will pay for your miles. You do have to have enough for a ticket and the more the better. Seems they want you to have enough for a first class. Can not remember how much they will pay, but it was pretty good. A very foggy guess was the number was going to be around $1400 for 75000 miles. That is after they find a use for them, so you can not be in a hurry to dump them.

 

[j31flyer]

Yup im running into that right now. Trying to book a ticket to HNL on Delta with my miles but I can only find availibity one way. Unless of course you are willing to double the amount of miles required to get the ticket, which I am not. Deltas FF program sucks!

It isnt just DL. I had the same problem with AA. They advertise a free ticket at 25K and the ticket cost me 50K in miles. I booked it 6 weeks in advance. All of the FF programs are BS!!

J31

 

[Guitar Guy]

It isnt just DL. I had the same problem with AA. They advertise a free ticket at 25K and the ticket cost me 50K in miles. I booked it 6 weeks in advance. All of the FF programs are BS!!

J31

I tried to book on DL last year, a trip out to SEA and back. DL considers a "ticket" to be one-way. So when a trip is from your home to another city and back, you need 2 "tickets". With one ticket being 25K miles, a trip to somewhere and back is 50K miles. I wasn't impressed with DL on that one.

Fortunately, I got a roundtrip ticket on AA using HHonors points. But that option is apparently going away in '07.

 

[Hogprint]

Used USAirways miles this summer with no problems. Three tickets round trip to DFW. The only catch was we had to fly back out of the same airport as the online trip planner would not let us switch to another TX local. All first class round trip.

 

[AirBear8]

My wife and stepdaughter traveled CLT-SAT this summer. I called USAir to book the FF award tickets 3 months in advance. We had to use the United Code Share since USAir doesn't serve SAT. To travel CLT-SAT (keep in mind this was 3 months in advance) the only route available was CLT-IAD-MDW Ground Trans to ORD then to SAT. 11 hours total. Return leg was United to MSY then USAir to CLT. Luckily good ole Mesa Airlines came thru once again by not having a jet available in CLT for the IAD leg so my family got rebooked nonstop to ORD. You'd think 3 months in advance would be plenty of time to still have seats.

AirBear