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These travelers don't just love to fly; they are obsessed with collecting frequent flier miles at the cheapest possible cost.

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option b should lower your insurance costs (very low annual mileage) and at least you'll get some frequent flier miles out of your $ 350 a month.

Airline co-branded cards typically offer at least one free checked bag on domestic flights, as well as priority boarding and, of course, frequent - flier miles that can be redeemed for free trips.

Cheap ways to keep frequent flier miles active — Spending a $ 1.29 per song at the iTunes store is one cheap way to keep your miles active.

At that rate, you'd end up with about 21,000 miles in a year — two trips short of scoring even the lowest - tier domestic fare (25,000 frequent flier miles).

Well, there's good news for those looking to head to London this summer: Plane tickets using frequent flier miles or points are widely available at the lowest levels in July and August.

There are at least 16.3 trillion unredeemed frequent - flier miles floating around out there, and the number is growing every day.

On top of that, Winship says, most frequent flier seats are seats that would not have sold, so they would have flown empty anyway, making selling miles at inflated prices even more lucrative for air carriers.

See related: 4 rules to win at the credit card rewards game, 8 winning strategies from frequent flier mile pros

Starwood also lets you trade points for miles at a 1:1 ratio or better for the majority of frequent - flier programs, making the card's transfer program even more valuable for frequent travelers.

Among the airlines that have announced changes to their frequent flier programs, United Airlines said beginning at the end of 2007, miles that remain in accounts without additional earnings or redemptions for 18 months in a row will expire, down from 36 months previously.

Here's how you can earn miles, attain elite status, and book award flights on more than a dozen domestic and foreign frequent - flier programs — each of which has at least one major U.S. partner.

But unless you eat out often at one of the restaurants affiliated with the program, they are probably not going to be a major source of additional frequent flier miles.

The answer is that since 1997, the government has imposed an air transportation excise tax on frequent flier miles, currently at 7.5 percent of their sale price.

So if you're offered the chance to buy 1,000 frequent flier miles for $ 30, that might sound like an attractive offer... until you realize that if you paid at that rate, you'd spend $ 750 ($ 30 x 25) for the 25,000 miles for your «free» trip.

According to United's reward travel chart, domestic round - trip flights start at 25,000 frequent flier miles, for flights of more than 700 miles each way.

They work pretty much the same: Shortly before your trip, or even when you're checking in at a kiosk or ticket counter, you'll have the chance to buy additional frequent flier miles.

Credit card sign - up bonuses lie at the heart of nearly every serious frequent flier mile collector's strategy, says Guillebeau.

Last year, Delta and United each announced a radical transformation of their frequent flier programs, switching from awarding miles based on the distance flown to fare based, rewarding business travelers paying top dollar for first class and last minute flights at the expense of other fliers.

MileCards.com looked at award data for 5 U.S. frequent flier programs, which cover about 90 % of U.S. airline mile program membership (American AAdvantage, Delta SkyMiles, United MileagePlus, Southwest Rapid Rewards, and JetBlue TruBlue.

Or you may earn frequent flier miles for every purchase you make at a certain big - box retailer.

They discovered that of all the US carriers, Southwest Airlines» Rapid Rewards program, both your favorite frequent flier program and one of favorite travel rewards programs, scored the highest at allowing travelers to redeem their miles for tickets on the dates they want to travel.

And, although the value of air travel has fallen significantly, those five major airlines have held the price of reward travel at 25,000 miles, causing a weakening in the value and buying power of the frequent flier miles program members earn.

However, do be aware that if there is no activity in a United frequent flier account for 18 months, the airline can wipe out all the miles, so be sure to use at least some of them before then, or have other account activity.

If you feel strongly about continuing to use a frequent flier credit card, Brancatelli recommends shifting from an airline - specific card to a general airline card, «which lets you put the miles where it makes the most good for you at the moment.»

That's not even enough to buy a one - way domestic fare, since those start at 12,500 frequent flier miles.

After stories in national newspapers in 2009, the Mint capped credit card purchases at $ 1,000 every 10 days, so at most customers could earn roughly 36,000 free frequent flier miles a year.

That might sound odd, but you can use British Airways miles to fly on American Airlines with a pretty good distance - based reward chart that starts at just 4,000 frequent flier miles one way for flights of less than 650 miles.

So, whether it was redeeming miles for business travel (many entrepreneurial types use their miles to save on business travel costs), for that class reunion weekend, for sending junior out to look at colleges or for typical family emergency air travel (which is happening more frequently with our aging population), frequent fliers in the millions used their miles last year.

At present, Cathay lets clients of partner airlines book flights using air miles accrued through their own flier programmes.

For example, say you're staying at a friend's house, using a voucher or redeeming frequent flier miles for your vacation.