A Collection of the Most Useful and Interesting MilesBuzz Threads
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A Collection of the Most Useful and Interesting MilesBuzz Threads
I thought I would put together a list of some of the most useful or interesting MilesBuzz threads. I welcome additions and thoughts.
Useful tips
The Status Match Master Thread - a discussion of which airlines comp status based on existing elite credentials with a competing carrier, along with carrier-specific instructions on how to submit a status match request.
The Hotel Status Match Master Thread.
The "What Credit Card Should I Choose?" Master Thread
Online Banking for Miles - a discussion of different banking institutions that provide miles as a checking account incentive. This is distinguished from investment accounts like Fidelity, Ameritrade, etc. which also may provide miles for opening accounts. See also Miles for Banking.
Does CO-->Amtrak-->UA Really Work?, a discussing of laundering points out of Continental and into United without any devaluation. <Dead> It's no longer possible to transfer Amtrak points to United.
Handling Miles in a Divorce
Miles for Insurance Policies
Lifetime Status
Cell Phones and Miles
Best Current Long Distance Deals/Bonuses for Miles
Buzz-worthy Discussions
The Best Awards/Rewards of All Time
Anyone acutally been caught by airline selling/bartering/trading an award?
The Coming Devaluation of Frequent Flyer Miles
What's the Best Airline Award Remaining?. See also What is the world's worst FF award?
Why Frequent Flyer Programs Make Sense -- And Gutting Benefits Does Not
Best/Worst Big 6 Programs for Low Yield Flyers
Best Credit Cards
Classic Offers (No Longer Active, But Worth Preserving)
Pudding Guy's extreme success with the Healthy Choice-American Airlines promotion not only earned him over a million miles, it also brought him fame beyond that of any other frequent flyer. Not only was he all over the news, but he was immortalized in film. It was so improbable that it warranted verification from Snopes.com. Some discussions of the offer itself can be found here, here, and here.
I haven't yet found the classic post Forget Latin Pass - lets have a BAHT PASS run. Become a UA "1K" for $750 in 10 days! but a search of Google finds several of the pages of the thread, and you read the contents of the threads via Google's cache of each page.
The Goldpoints/Valumags offer allowed the purchase of unlimited miles in a variety of airline programs for less than one cent apiece. See goldpoints - fly the concorde for $1111 for a representative sample of discussion.
The KLM Match: offered to match not just elite status but account balances as well.
Test Drive a Jaguar, Fly to Europe
In the Spring of 2002, Randy was offering some amazing bonuses for subscribing to Inside Flyer magazine. Some savvy Flyertalkers realized that it was an opportunity to Fly the concorde JFK-LHR for $1259 courtesy of Randy.
LatinPass, 1,000,000 bonus miles (An offer Dr. Evil could not resist! One meelyun miles!) and LatinPass: Who's Really Going?
Useful tips
The Status Match Master Thread - a discussion of which airlines comp status based on existing elite credentials with a competing carrier, along with carrier-specific instructions on how to submit a status match request.
The Hotel Status Match Master Thread.
The "What Credit Card Should I Choose?" Master Thread
Online Banking for Miles - a discussion of different banking institutions that provide miles as a checking account incentive. This is distinguished from investment accounts like Fidelity, Ameritrade, etc. which also may provide miles for opening accounts. See also Miles for Banking.
Does CO-->Amtrak-->UA Really Work?, a discussing of laundering points out of Continental and into United without any devaluation. <Dead> It's no longer possible to transfer Amtrak points to United.
Handling Miles in a Divorce
Miles for Insurance Policies
Lifetime Status
Cell Phones and Miles
Best Current Long Distance Deals/Bonuses for Miles
Buzz-worthy Discussions
The Best Awards/Rewards of All Time
Anyone acutally been caught by airline selling/bartering/trading an award?
The Coming Devaluation of Frequent Flyer Miles
What's the Best Airline Award Remaining?. See also What is the world's worst FF award?
Why Frequent Flyer Programs Make Sense -- And Gutting Benefits Does Not
Best/Worst Big 6 Programs for Low Yield Flyers
Best Credit Cards
- The real cost of "free" credit-card-obtained miles
- Randy picks the best credit card plans to offer air miles cheaply
- Best Miles Credit Card
- What is the Best Airline Credit Card Deal?
- Narrowed it down to 4 credit cards
Classic Offers (No Longer Active, But Worth Preserving)
Pudding Guy's extreme success with the Healthy Choice-American Airlines promotion not only earned him over a million miles, it also brought him fame beyond that of any other frequent flyer. Not only was he all over the news, but he was immortalized in film. It was so improbable that it warranted verification from Snopes.com. Some discussions of the offer itself can be found here, here, and here.
I haven't yet found the classic post Forget Latin Pass - lets have a BAHT PASS run. Become a UA "1K" for $750 in 10 days! but a search of Google finds several of the pages of the thread, and you read the contents of the threads via Google's cache of each page.
The Goldpoints/Valumags offer allowed the purchase of unlimited miles in a variety of airline programs for less than one cent apiece. See goldpoints - fly the concorde for $1111 for a representative sample of discussion.
The KLM Match: offered to match not just elite status but account balances as well.
Test Drive a Jaguar, Fly to Europe
In the Spring of 2002, Randy was offering some amazing bonuses for subscribing to Inside Flyer magazine. Some savvy Flyertalkers realized that it was an opportunity to Fly the concorde JFK-LHR for $1259 courtesy of Randy.
LatinPass, 1,000,000 bonus miles (An offer Dr. Evil could not resist! One meelyun miles!) and LatinPass: Who's Really Going?
Last edited by gleff; Jan 21, 2006 at 7:20 am
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Don't forget the infamous November 2002 $20-plus-tax roundtrip airfares on BA:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=274376
As the lucky buyer of SEA-HEL-SEA and SEA-CDG-SEA for two people, at a total cost of less than $400, that's something I'll never forget!
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=274376
As the lucky buyer of SEA-HEL-SEA and SEA-CDG-SEA for two people, at a total cost of less than $400, that's something I'll never forget!
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Wonderful reference .. some great and concentrated reminders of some wonderful threads - and a lot of work from gleff for compiling it.
Thanks ^
Thanks ^
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Originally Posted by free101girl
Don't forget the infamous November 2002 $20-plus-tax roundtrip airfares on BA:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=274376
As the lucky buyer of SEA-HEL-SEA and SEA-CDG-SEA for two people, at a total cost of less than $400, that's something I'll never forget!
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=274376
As the lucky buyer of SEA-HEL-SEA and SEA-CDG-SEA for two people, at a total cost of less than $400, that's something I'll never forget!
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Originally Posted by gleff
Indeed. I was listing only MilesBuzz threads. If we were to open it up, we'd definitely have to include BA $20, $55+tax PVR runs in MX C, the Mexican Hat Dance...
Thanks for a great thread... very useful links and a nice trip down memory lane, too.
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Originally Posted by LemonThrower
The ValuMags deal was 450 airline points per dollar spent.
Unless there was a better deal that I missed out on!
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What a great, great, great idea this thread is-- so many new people come to FT and this thread can probably answer about 50% of "first posts" from them. Will reduce clutter and ameliorate some of the inevitable grouchiness of the "use the search, stupid" posters.
Great work ^^
Great work ^^
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Recent 1 800 Flowers DL promo
Don't forget this more recent Valuemags-like bonanza. It worked out quite well for most of us.
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Another keeper
People spent hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars buying Inside Flyer subscriptions in the Summer of 2002.
See Are there any current bonus mile deals for buying multiple InsideFlyer subscriptions?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9475
See Are there any current bonus mile deals for buying multiple InsideFlyer subscriptions?
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9475