With many co-branded cards, however, you can
now earn airline miles and hotel points directly with the airline / hotel by only spending on their credit card.
Not exact matches
Now that you understand a little about what
airline miles are and how they work, let's go into detail on how to
earn and use rewards.
Our Partner American Express, the exclusive credit card issuer for Delta
Airlines in the United States, has recently rolled out a new
miles loan program for co-branded credit card holders called «Fly
Now Earn Later.»
Now that you know what some of the top programs are, we have some good news to share: While it's commonly thought that you have to fly all the time to
earn airline miles, this couldn't be any further from the truth.
Even double
miles for American
Airlines purchases is a worthy benefit, considering how hard it is to
earn AAdvantage
miles since the cheapest seats
now earn only half the standard
miles.
With the
airlines recent merger with AirTran, you can
now also
earn your
miles on international flights.
NZ the EZ way: Flying to New Zealand using points,
miles —
Earning enough points for a US - New Zealand flight takes patience, but some
airline deals
now can make it easier... (See New Zealand deals)
Members of Delta's SkyMiles loyalty program can
now earn miles on every Lyft ride, thanks to a new partnership between the ridesharing company and Delta
Airlines.
Members of LAN Colombia's LANPass frequent flyer program are
now able to
earn and redeem
miles and tier status points when they fly on any oneworld alliance
airline partner.
Regus, a provider of virtual offices and meeting rooms, has partnered with American
Airlines so that AAdvantage members can
now earn miles when booking Regus services.
Now that you understand a little about what
airline miles are and how they work, let's go into detail on how to
earn and use rewards.
All eight
airlines now allow the
earning of Etihad Guest
miles across all
airlines, along with spending («burning») on free flights, cabin class upgrades or gifts from the Etihad reward shop.
For all three
airlines (BA / AF / KL) you
now only
earn 25 % of actual
miles flown for the lowest fares.
United
Airlines has joined up with BP to offer MileagePlus members a new way to
earn miles when they gar up at the pump and, if you have more
miles than you know what to with, you can
now spend United
Miles at BP gas stations too.
Members of the American
Airlines AAdvantage ® program and WestJet's Frequent Guest Program ® can
now earn miles or rewards on the codeshare flights, providing customers another benefit of the enhanced relationship.
The American
Airlines AAdvantage program is offering a solid promotion right
now for
earning up to 10,000
miles.
With some
airlines now setting earlier expiration dates on frequent flier
miles,
airline credit card holders who do not take to the skies on a regular basis are in danger of losing their hard -
earned miles.
Members in the two award programs can
now earn points or
miles by flying on the other
airline.
In an exciting bit of news to me, being based here in Seattle, PointsHound is
now offering the chance to
earn miles with Alaska
Airlines Mileage Plan and Frontier
Airlines EarlyReturns.
Right
now the American
Airlines» shopping portal is running a Mystery Bonus Event in which participants can
earn «100s or 1,000 s» of
miles.
Right
now American
Airlines is running a promotion in which travelers can
earn a bonus of up to 30 % when converting Starwood Starpoints to AAdvantage
miles.
Simply register and
earn 12,000
miles or points on American and other select
airlines * between
now and August 31, 2013.
The Alaska
Airline promotion is ongoing,
now through May 31, 2014, and ALL mileage plan members who register will
earn 2x
miles on all flights mentioned above and will also
earn 2x elite status
miles when flying up and down the west coast on Alaska metal.
After adding Germania
Airlines as a partner to
earn miles, it is
now adding bmi regional as well, giving you a chance to
earn up to 2,000
miles per flight with the UK based
airline!
Now, there are some
airlines that do not belong to any of the three alliances, but you can still fly them and
earn miles as the
airline you chose had a previous relationship with them before they joined the big Alliances.
Until
now, the only other easy way to
earn and redeem
miles on Emirates (without flying Emirates directly) was by using Alaska
Airlines miles, which provides a similar partnership.
Between
now and December 10, you can
earn bonus
miles on American or Japan
Airlines flights to Asia.
Members of the American
Airlines AAdvantage program and WestJet's WestJet Rewards program can
now earn AAdvantage
miles or WestJet dollars when traveling on either
airline.
United
Airlines has joined up with BP to offer MileagePlus members a new way to
earn miles when they gas up at the pump and, if you have more
miles than you know what to with, you can
now spend United
Miles at BP gas stations too.
American
Airlines is offering AAdvantage members the opportunity to
earn bonus
miles on round - trip travel between the U.S. or Canada and Europe from
now until January 31, 2013.
Airlines often bring out promotions that allow travelers to earn sizeable numbers of miles / points for flying during certain periods — the OneWorld airlines have one of these going on right now and travelers can earn up to 50,000 bonu
Airlines often bring out promotions that allow travelers to
earn sizeable numbers of
miles / points for flying during certain periods — the OneWorld
airlines have one of these going on right now and travelers can earn up to 50,000 bonu
airlines have one of these going on right
now and travelers can
earn up to 50,000 bonus
miles.
He received the card already loaded with 40,000 bonus
miles and
now earns double
miles on all travel expenses, including
airline, hotel and rental car costs without any blackout dates.
Right
now Both United and American
Airlines shopping portals are allowing you to
earn 500 bonus
miles when you -LSB-...]
Analysts say that changes to
airline reward programs could sour customers on
airline credit cards, if they perceive that awards are
now too hard to
earn, on top of perceptions that frequent flier
miles are already too difficult to redeem.
All four major U.S.
airlines — American, Delta, United and Southwest —
now have strikingly similar structures for
earning frequent flier
miles.
Now, for those of us who love utilizing credit cards to
earn miles and points for award travel, the value of this card really rests in the potential of
airline transfer partners.
This just dropped: From
now through June 15, 2017, convert your hotel points to American
Airlines AAdvantage ®
miles, and you'll
earn a 25 % bonus on the amount of
miles you receive from the conversion.
Now there are rewards programs that you can use to pay for
airline tickets with rewards points and still
earn the
miles, but usually if you are paying for a flight with rewards points you aren't getting the better value than if you were to pay for the same ticket with
miles.
«By working closely together, we can enhance the benefits provided to our guests who
now have greater choice, better flight connections, access to each other's premium lounges and more opportunities to
earn and redeem
miles when travelling with either
airline.»
Our Partner American Express, the exclusive credit card issuer for Delta
Airlines in the United States, has recently rolled out a new
miles loan program for co-branded credit card holders called «Fly
Now Earn Later.»
The two loyalty programs will not be combined for
now, Alaska said, but on January 9, Elevate members will be invited to activate new Mileage Plan accounts, so they can
earn miles not only on Alaska but also on its international partner
airlines, which fly to more than 800 global destinations.
Mileage Plan members will also
earn more
miles on international partner carriers
now, Alaska said — up to 80 percent more for business class and first class travel on British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Emirates, Fiji Airways, Hainan, Icelandair, Japan
Airlines, Korean, LATAM and Qantas.
Whether you are looking for way to get free
airline miles right
now or from credit card sign ups, I plan on updating this page with some of the current promotions and how many
miles you can
earn from each.
Earning Alaska
Airlines miles on American
Airlines domestic flights is
now nearly impossible.
But
now the
airline is taking their website up a notch, having inked a deal with both Booking.com and Rentalcars.com, letting travelers set up hotel stays and rental cars directly through their site, and
earn miles doing it.
From
now through June 15, 2017, convert your hotel points to American
Airlines AAdvantage
miles, and you'll
earn a 25 % bonus on the amount of
miles you receive from the conversion.
As far as
earning miles throgh flying, View from the Wing suggests that Copa may be a good place to credit flights on United
Airlines,
now that United has gone to revenue - based -LSB-...]
The Citi ® / AAdvantage ® Platinum Select ® World Elite ™ Mastercard ®
now offers the following sign - up bonus: For a limited time,
earn 60,000 American
Airlines AAdvantage ® bonus
miles after making $ 3,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of account opening.
I recently reviewed the option to
earn airline reward
miles with hotel bookings and
now it's time for an in - depth review of PointsHound, one of the portals allowing you to do that!
Guest will not receive Starpoints or
airline miles for their reservation; however, the hotel stay portion is a Free Night Award and as of October 1, 2011 will
now qualify as an eligible stay toward
earning elite or Lifetime nights.