USAIR HAS GREAT PROMO

USAIR is having a Dividend Miles Summer Blockbuster promotion.

If you have an abundance of hotel points and you transfer them to your Dividend miles account, Usair will give you an additional 50%. As an example: I transferred 20000 starpoints to Usair, Starwood gave an additional 5000 as they always do and then Usair added 12500 miles on top of that. So from that transaction I have 37500 miles in my Dividend miles account. I plan on doing this one more time this month.

The promotion ends July 31, 2009.

It requires registration. Hit Dividend Miles, then on the left side it says mileage specials, hit that and then on the left column last item, it says: Earn 50% more on hotel stays and car rentals, hit that, this is where the registration is.

It takes a few weeks for the miles to get into the account.

Starwood and Delta summer promos

Just a reminder that the Starwood hotel chain has a promo, pay for 2 stays and get 1 free night. Delta is also giving an additional 1000 skymiles per stay when you stay at 1 of at 300 participating Starwood hotels. This is double dipping.

We will have 2 free nights away and 3000 skymiles.

Miles Update

We are half way into 2009 and I just thought I would give an update of what I have earned so far this year.

When we got back from the Bahamas I had a free Jetblue flight waiting for me, I charged all our dinners with the Jetblue card. The food is very expensive, we were 8 people each night and Jetblue gives double credits for restaurants.

Delta is having a great promotion and by the time it ends in 2 weeks I will have earned an extra 22,000 miles.

Starwood is also having a great promotion which we are capitalizing on. Stay and pay for 2 nights and get a free weekend night. I normally do not pay for hotel rooms but for this promotion I decided it was worth it. By the first week in July, I will have 4 free nights. We are planning to use them for a weekend in Washington D.C. over the summer. The room at the hotel is a category 6 and the price per room if I used cash would be over $410 per room. I stayed at hotels which averaged for the 2 nights $287 for the 2 stays so were are ahead of the game.

That is what I have earned this year, and this is what I have booked 5 first class tickets for trips through May of 2010 worth over $7100.

I hope you are all earning miles or points so you can Fly for FREE.

NWA and Delta

I can't believe I almost miss this great and easy promotion. If you shop on-line and collect Delta skymiles this is an easy way to earn extra miles.

You need to have a NWA FF number and then go on the NWA mall and shop. Every time you shop at one of their vendors that is part of the promotion you will get an additional 1000 miles up to 10000 miles. YOU CAN NOT REPEAT VENDORS.

So I purchased me monthly order from Drugstore.com, a cd from Barnes and Noble.com,a gift certificate form spafinders for the day spa I go to, and my sports orthotics for walking at the Walking store.com. So by purchasing things I would buy anyway I am going to get an addtional 4000 miles.

After they arrive in my NWA account I will transfer them to my Delta account because they are merging.

Choice Privileges-cash in on summer

If you are a Choice Privilege rewards member there is a great promotion this summer. Stay 3 separate times at any Choice hotel between now and August 13,2009, you'll earn enough Choice Privileges points to redeem for a $50 prepaid cash card.

American airline changes

For those of us who have American frequent flier miles there is good news from corporate. You can now book a one-way award. You can also combine first class, business and coach one-way awards.

So if you only have 12,500 miles in your account you can use them to book a one-way award and then pay cash for the return flight. You will get mileage credit for the flight that you paid cash for.

This is a great addition for the ability to fly for FREE.

Hopefully other airlines will implement this perk.

Father's day

Hi all, I have been sick and then on vacation. We had a great time. All the major airline programs are offering extra miles when you buy something for Father's day.
Don't forget your Dad.

Still waiting for all my Mother's day miles. It takes 6-8 weeks for the miles to post to an account.