Frequent Flyer questions

I have not flown much.
I live in Minneapolis.
I've flown round trips:

to LAX c.1982 on NWA,
to Puerto Vallerta c.1986 on charter,
to FRA 1999 on USAir,

to DEN c. 2002 on Sun Country,
and to HKG on 6-13 September 2006 (two weeks ago) on United (via ORD,
about 17,000 miles.) I bought the tickets online at United.com

(On my FRA flight in 1999 I accumulated frequent flyer miles, I guess.
I've never really seen that they did me any good. I periodically get
offers to use them for magazine subscriptions. Are these magazine offers
a scam, or a wise choice?)

I see on the United website a F. Flyer section / application. Do I need
to apply for this to get FF miles, or is it automatic? Is it too late?
Will 17,000 miles get me anything? A FA on the flight gave me an
application and told me to turn it in.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

P T <Petepenguin@> wrote:

: I have not flown much.
: I live in Minneapolis.
: I've flown round trips:
:
: to LAX c.1982 on NWA,
: to Puerto Vallerta c.1986 on charter,
: to FRA 1999 on USAir,
:
: to DEN c. 2002 on Sun Country,
: and to HKG on 6-13 September 2006 (two weeks ago) on United (via ORD,
: about 17,000 miles.) I bought the tickets online at United.com
:
: (On my FRA flight in 1999 I accumulated frequent flyer miles, I guess.
: I've never really seen that they did me any good. I periodically get
: offers to use them for magazine subscriptions. Are these magazine offers
: a scam, or a wise choice?)
:
: I see on the United website a F. Flyer section / application. Do I need
: to apply for this to get FF miles, or is it automatic? Is it too late?
: Will 17,000 miles get me anything? A FA on the flight gave me an
: application and told me to turn it in.

To get ff miles, you need to join an airline's program. I don't think
you can get miles for flights before joining. However, joining is easy.


To benefit from these programs, you need to focus on one program: AA,
UA, NWA, whichever. Then try to fly only that airline and its partners.


Give them you ff number when you book a flight, or when you check in,
and you'll get the miles.

You should also consolidate your credit card purchases to one card that
gives miles on that airline. (This is also an excellent way to keep
your miles from expiring due to account inactivity.)

Typically, you need 25,000 miles for a domestic ticket and 40,000+ for
international depending on destination.

Dnia 25.09.2006 John L <johnl@iecc.com> napisa³/a:
>>I see on the United website a F. Flyer section / application. Do I need
>>to apply for this to get FF miles, or is it automatic? Is it too late?
>>Will 17,000 miles get me anything? A FA on the flight gave me an
>>application and told me to turn it in.
>
> Too late. The milage plus web site says quite specifically that you
> cannot get credit for flights before you enrolled. If you'd signed
> up on the spot (or on their web site) on or before the date of your
> flight, you could probably still get credit.

I'm using FF program of Lufthansa and there you can get the miles from the
flight (I think) within 1 year. So it does not matter if you are in the program
when you are flying. You can enroll later and ask for calcullation of these
miles. I fo not know how it looks in US and AirFrance, but it is not the rule
that you cannot get old miles.

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