Comments on: 5 Million Frequent Flyer Challenge: Update #2

By: Coco M Davis

Coco M Davis — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:52:58 +0000

Can’t resist posting that I’m off on my first of many free flights this month. Destination: Peru! New country and new continent to tick off my list.

By: Coco M Davis

Coco M Davis — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:24:30 +0000

Another idea I had to speed up the spending process on all these cards. Buy a Visa gift card online. You’ll pay a few bucks in shipping but your minimum will be met and you can spend money at leisure on regular stuff. I’m going to give this and the $1 coins a try.

By: Daniel Mick

Daniel Mick — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:48:19 +0000

@Micki

I was just about to post details on the Starwood Amex myself, especially the 5000 bonus point for transfers. Clever scheme about shuffling points to obtain that. I hadn’t thought of that! Have you checked the fine print on that though…?

By: Micki

Micki — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:49:00 +0000

Bonus! I got rejected for the Starwood Amex (10000 points) , they said I had reached the limit of Amex cards I could hold. So I also gave up on applying for the Amex Business Gold card (10000). I was going to transfer the Amex points into the Starwood account (1:1) and then transfer the Starwood points to AA or Delta because they give a 5000 pt bonus when you transfer 20000 points to an airline. The next time I logged into my Amex account, the banner at the top said I was pre-approved for a Gold Business card with a 25000 points bonus! So now if I transfer to Starwood I’ll have an extra 30000 points. I’m looking at a total of 140,000 points on two airlines, and I haven’t had to pay a single annual fee. Later this year we should all post where we’re travelling to and meet up to have a drink and laugh about this.

By: Philippe

Philippe — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:15:24 +0000

Very interesting challenge to do but I have a better way for you to travel for nothing: Work for the travel industry. If you are a IT, you can work for a major travel company and while doing IT stuff, you’ll be able to go anywhere in the world for very very cheap.

Cheers!

By: Gennaro

Gennaro — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:46:12 +0000

The Associated Press (It’s on Yahoo! News Travel) ran a story last week about credit card companies cutting back on airline miles or increasing the number of miles to receive airline tickets. It was called “Credit card rewards programs getting stingier.”

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:49:26 +0000

Hey Chris, I’m guessing this has probably been asked before, but do you know of any similar programmes that work in the UK? I’m struggling to find many but quite keen to participate! jen x

By: Maneesh Sethi

Maneesh Sethi — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:08:33 +0000

Hey Chris, this is an excellent update, I just signed up and my first Capital One No Hassle card, do you have any experience with it for Frequent Flyer issues?

Also, quick question: what other travel/freelance/lifestyle design blogs do you follow? Which are your favorites?

Thanks from Argentina!