Earning miles via this promotion requires zero effort.
If you're not a frequent traveler, you always have the option of
earning miles via credit card spending.
Today, Tuesday 17 November, at around 2 pm Eastern, American AAdvantage dealt an official blow to mile and point enthusiasts that
earn their miles via flying.
Of course, you can always
earn miles via paid flights.
Not exact matches
Cardholders
earn 2x
miles per $ 1 on all purchases and redeem
miles via statement credits.
It's been reported that NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan) may have
earned up to 205,000 frequent flier
miles — enough for a trip around the world — from his weekly commute from Albany back to New York City,
via air travel to Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia.
All
miles earned via your Delta credit card can be transferred at a ratio of 1:1 to any of the below partner airlines.
@Pat — Unfortunately as of a couple years ago only
miles earned via flying will count toward Million Mile status with American so these won't help.
The bonus
miles are
earned via $ 1,000 of regular spend.
However, when you
earn miles through a credit card, as opposed to
earning them
via the traditional route, there are some nuances that will change how your frequent flyer account operates.
I often get asked about the impact on one's credit score of churning or signing up for multiple rewards credit cards, especially by those new to
earning a million or more frequent flyer
miles and points
via credit cards.
Use United
miles earned from a United Mileage Plus credit card or transferred to United from Chase Ultimate Rewards to fly on a partner award ticket on Turkish Airways
via Istanbul, or South African Airways vis Johannesburg.
Cardholders
earn 2x
miles per $ 1 on all purchases and redeem
miles via statement credits.
We assign the following values to the points and
miles earned via these popular travel credit cards:
When you book
via the Ultimate Rewards site you're essentially booking a revenue ticket with your Ultimate Rewards points, so you'll
earn AAdvantage
miles according to the fare you purchase.
A great perk of using ThankYou Points to purchase flights
via the Citi Travel Center is that you will
earn miles with the airline you fly (or the airline you choose to credit the flight).
The mileage account I use is
via BankDirect, which enables me to
earn American AAdvantage
miles.
Sign up for newsletters or follow the airline or mileage program
via their Facebook or Twitter accounts to find out the latest promotions for
earning bonus
miles.
Other ways through which you can
earn Delta
miles is by booking your cruises and vacations
via a Delta Cruise partner,
earning miles on car rentals, limousine rentals and shuttles as well as
earning miles on dining, retail and specialty Delta partners.
You can
earn both Japan Airlines
miles or Alaska Airlines
miles via the Starwood Preferred Guest ® Credit Card from American Express or the Starwood Preferred Guest ® Business Credit Card from American Express.
Other ways in which you can
earn the United
miles include
via hotel bookings on partner hotels, car rentals with partner companies, rail services, on cruise and vacation partners.
Here's how it works with the
miles earned via an airline credit card.
Virgin America
miles can be
earned via a variety of credit cards, including Virgin America's own co-branded credit card and any Membership Rewards -
earning credit cards from American Express.
Virgin America likely isn't a program you are overly familiar with, but there are definitely some redemptions worth consideration, especially if you have easy access to
miles via a Membership Rewards -
earning credit card.
Lastly, while this is only a one - time bonus, there is no limit to the number of
miles a member is allowed to
earn via the eShoppingSM portal.
The Alaska credit card does not offer any way expedite the
earning of elite status
via qualifying
miles bonuses.
SkyMiles Members need to access Airbnb.com
via deltaairbnb.com in order to
earn Delta
miles for Airbnb stays or hosting with Airbnb.
A great perk of using ThankYou Points to purchase flights
via the Citi Travel Center is that you will
earn miles with the airline you fly (or the airline you choose to credit the flight).
This extension notifies you anytime you're are on a website that could
earn you AAdvantage
miles via shopping.
Qualifying room rates to
earn miles exclude airline employee rates, inter-company or employee discount rates, free of charge rooms, any stays in connection with frequent traveller awards, gift certificates or other awards or discounts, wholesale, package tour operator, rates booked
via online travel agencies, special packages at the discretion of the hotel, conference, travel industry discount, special discounted, travel agent, all merchant and long stays.
SkyMiles Members can
earn a minimum of 1
mile for every $ 1 * spent on the base hotel rate for every completed stay booked
via delta.com/hotels.
Join Best Western Rewards ®, set your
earning preference to «Airline
miles» and enter your Flying Club details as your default Frequent Flyer Club
via your online account or by calling the Rewards Team on 0845 337 6037.
Keep in mind, however, that while you can still
earn miles for points redemption, hotels might not give you any points for booking
via a travel agency, and they might also refuse to give you status benefits that would be yours for booking directly.
Bear in mind that
earning Skymiles
via a credit card
earns you 1
mile per dollar.
Not too long ago I
earned 10,500 MileagePlus
miles through two Hertz bookings
via United that cost me a total of $ 100!
You can
earn this amount of
miles relatively easily
via credit card sign - up bonuses; and in this particular case the main two avenues are both Chase and American Express credit cards.
Even if you don't have time to place an order online
via an airline shopping site and then pick it up in the store, you can still use the United MileagePlus X app to pay for in - store purchases at retailers including Old Navy, Kohl's, Sears, TJ Maxx, Nike, JCPenney, Kmart and Staples and
earn up to 10
miles per dollar in the process.
Another positive about this is that both American and US Airways offer methods to
earn elite qualifying
miles via credit card spending.
Despite the difference in the way it's managed compared to other loyalty programs, the frequent flyer program operates on the same principles — you
earn Aeroplan
miles whenever you fly and can redeem them for free flights or gifts, either on Air Canada or
via one of its Star Alliance partners.
Note: United sells its
miles via Points.com so there's nom opportunity to
earn a credit card category bonus here — use whatever credit card
earns you the points you value highest (or a credit card on which you have a minimum spend target to hit).
Still, if you have some flexibility with your bookings and if you're planing to book a premium cabin, it may be worth connecting
via LAX before traveling on to Hong Kong to make sure you
earn the bonus
miles.
You can
earn 500
miles when you sign up for Visa Checkout
via the promotion page and another 500
miles when you make your first... [Read more...] about Up To 1,000 Free Marriott Points with Visa Checkout
The number of
miles we
earn via travel on British Airways marketed flights has already been devalued and now we're seeing lower
earning rates on partners like Cathay Pacific and JAL as well.
Book a five - night trip with hotel and flights for two people
via American Airlines Vacations and
earn 30,000 bonus
miles.
I mentioned a couple months ago that United was still running their promotion with Foursquare where you get 50
miles per airport check - in, limited to one per day.Well, here we are a couple months... [Read more...] about I've
Earned Over 4,000
Miles on United Airlines
via Foursquare
Tickets issued by United but operated on Star Alliance or MileagePlus partners will
earn mileage
via the new system, but tickets issued by those airlines directly will
earn award
miles based on distance flown and the purchased fare class.
Sure, they can not be collected
via Ultimate Rewards, Citi ThankYou Rewards or Amex Membership Rewards either, but there's a whole host of credit cards (some with big sign - up bonuses) that will
earn AAdvantage
miles.
You can
earn 500
miles when you sign up for Visa Checkout
via the promotion page and another 500
miles when you make your first purchase through Visa checkout within 15 days of signing up.
You can
earn additional bonus
miles through Alaska Airlines hotel and rental car partners and by shopping
via the Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan shopping portal.
For those of us that don't have enough, or any,
miles in our United account or any points from another program we can transfer in, it's too late to
earn them
via credit cards for this particular deal.