Sentences with phrase «to purchase miles»

A 100 % bonus on purchased miles is no good if the cost of awards doubles before you get to use them.

Previous sales have offered higher bonuses, and at one time the base cost for purchased miles was lower.

Often when purchasing miles during a promotion period, you don't get the best promotional bonus rate unless you purchase a significant amount of miles from the top tier of the promotion.

Banks obviously see an advantage in purchasing these miles in order to attract customers who are loyal to a particular airline.

They were accused of purchasing miles from a broker which is false.

The only way you can win in this situation is by purchasing miles at a 100 % bonus and finding the cheapest tickets in terms of miles spent.

If you only purchase miles when you have a set plan for what you're going to do with them you'll rarely go wrong.

But if these methods leave you short of your travel goals, you can also purchase miles directly from an airline.

As a last resort, consider purchasing miles from the airline.

Additionally, you can purchase miles as gifts or share them with friends and family for added bonus miles.

Sometimes you can purchase the miles needed to book an award business / first class seat for the same price you would have paid for an economy revenue ticket.

If you have already purchased any miles this year, you won't be eligible to purchase the maximum of 150,000 miles during this promo.

Sometimes it can be worth it to purchase miles rather than pay cash even if the miles aren't inexpensive.

American just announced a sale on purchased miles earlier this week at 2.1 cents.

Forget purchasing miles, or even using up the ones you have, you'd get the whole batch at once in sign - up bonuses.

Note that there is also a promotion in progress for purchasing miles.

Unless you fit into either of those criteria you probably shouldn't be purchasing miles in this promotion.

But others have an offer that will allow them to purchase miles at just 1 cent each....

That's the basic question you need to ask when considering purchasing miles, experts say.

Star Alliance frequent flyer program Avianca LifeMiles is offering a 130 % bonus on purchased miles through September 10.

Do not purchase miles speculatively as there is a devaluation coming to AA award chart.

You should not purchase miles speculatively, unless have a specific use in the near term.

I usually recommend for folks to abstain from purchasing miles unless they absolutely have to, but this one is a first with United.

Sure, that still gives anyone who purchased miles with the intention of using them on Avianca 3 months to use up their miles....

Anytime you see a high promotional rate, you should always consider this route because it's not uncommon to be able to pay an economy rate for a business class fare by purchasing miles during a promotion (especially if you can stack promotions).

But there are times when airlines run promotions to earn up to double the number of purchased miles, which can get you pretty close to the going «bank rate.»

United places a cap of 150,000 purchased miles per year, resulting in a total of 225,000 miles.

Most of them were too expensive for me or at that time can only be purchased miles away (shipping would double / triple the cost) OR is a DIY I don't have time for.

Do you ever purchase miles or do you just rack them up the «old - fashioned» way?

I've written before about using MileagePlus shopping offers with the real motive of «purchasing» UA miles, and I've compared that to straight up purchasing miles through United's MileagePlus program.

That means if you use a credit card that offers bonus miles for airline purchases, you won't receive the bonus when purchasing miles since you technically aren't buying them directly from the airline.

If your Alaska miles account is short on miles, Alaska has a 40 % offer on purchased miles expiring on April 9.

This brings me back to a point I make just about every time I discuss purchasing miles — you shouldn't buy miles unless you have a firm, short - term plan for what to with them.

Alaska Airlines» Mileage Plan is offering a mystery miles bonus of between 35 % & 50 % to whoever purchases miles thru 29 September — what offer did you get?

The Member may purchase miles outside of the limits showed above but in such case the transactions will be processed but no bonuses will be granted.

Why purchase miles?

If you choose to maximize this promotion by buying 100,000 miles, you would get a total of 130,000 miles (100,000 purchased miles + 30,000 bonus miles) and it would cost $ 2,884.13.

It was unreal, and such a great deal that we often recommended that readers purchase miles to experience Emirates first at a fraction of the cost.

Now without getting into more math, when you redeem an awards ticket you pay a $ 10 tax charge, which will make purchasing miles versus purchasing the ticket about the same cost.

All of the other programs have easy ways to move or purchase miles inexpensively.

-- United is offering 40 % off the regular ridiculous price for purchasing miles when you buy at least 20,000 miles — so you'll only pay an absurd $ 451.50 for 20,000 miles.