Sentences with phrase «into collecting miles»

If you're just getting into collecting miles and points for free flights, it can be a bit overwhelming.

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Herman Willemse, 28, a schoolteacher from Holland, plunged into the 25 - mile «splash for cash» marathon off Atlantic City and, after slashing himself on barnacled jetties, emerged a dripping and damaged first nearly 12 hours later to collect $ 5,000 for his third straight win.

Old assumptions about comets are faltering as results emerge from data collected by the Deep Impact spacecraft in July 2005, when the probe's impactor detached from the mother ship and crashed into the comet at 37,000 kilometres (23,000 miles) per hour.

By collecting and storing antiprotons for reinjection into the main accelerator, the 1.9 - mile (3.1 - kilometer) Permanent Magnet Antiproton Recycler Ring more than doubled the rate of proton — antiproton collisions the Tevatron could produce, allowing it to stay at the cutting edge of particle physics.

For this work, she went out into the field, a dangerous one five thousand miles away, to collect blood samples.

For anyone just getting into collecting and redeeming miles Southwest is a great program.

For the first $ 200,000 that is deposited into your account, you will earn 100 miles per month for every $ 1,000 for every collected balance in your checking account.

So you got snookered into earning a bunch of miles and points that have been collecting dust and are slashed in value every 18 - to - 24 months.

I won't get into how many miles you should be collecting, but I will caution you, you should be keeping an eye on your totals and stay away from hoarding miles.

Dear Barbara, If you're the rare bird who collects miles but doesn't care about free flights or seat upgrades, you probably shouldn't be putting too much effort into an airline credit card.

Before delving further into this, it is important to understand the techniques that most people use to collect the miles and points via credit cards.

First Class Airfare: If you want to score a business or first class ticket, you'll want to collect airline miles, or transferrable points, such as American Express Membership Rewards points, Chase Ultimate Rewards points, or Citibank ThankYou Points, which can be converted into airline miles at a one - to - one rate.

The biggest pitfall I see travelers falling into surrounds the airlines that charge «surcharges» on their award tickets — for a lot of the airlines the days of free award travel are long gone and this can catch out those who are new to collecting miles / points.

The cost of collecting miles should be something that's priced into every traveller's calculations — and most of the time the calculations are pretty straight forward:

Convert points of any of the participating loyalty programmes into Etihad Guest Miles during April and you will collect an extra 20 % bonus miles.

Keep in mind that you do not necessarily need to collect miles with different airlines to save them up for one of these redemptions; you can also collect hotel points with Starwood's excellent SPG program which can be converted into frequent flyer miles with more than 30 airline partners.

In the course of working with BASEC, Strachan has made several rockets wholly from Bahamian natural resources (glass from beach sand, and fuel from sugarcane) and launched them 15 to 20 miles into the earth's stratosphere, before collecting and presenting their fallen remnants as sculptural relics.

Microwarehousing solutions for tackling last - mile logistics run the gamut from «click - and - collect» methods, where a consumer makes a purchase on their smartphone and picks items up in a retail store or locker, to pop - up distribution centers, where a truck pulls into a parking lot and a swarm of on - demand delivery drivers pick up items and deliver them within a small community radius.