Air Miles question????

[Jen_S]

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Originally Posted by Jacilynda It really depends on what airline they are for, each has different amounts for what, etc. I say to save them. Really if you want to save money, you need to save the miles.We never use miles on a short trip. We save miles for a big trip to take, or on long trips we use them to upgrade. Flying to Thailand, one flight 18 hours, another 15 hours, we definitely need upgraded on those!

I was wondering about upgrades I usually save my miles for a free ticket we are going to Ireland at the end of the month how do we go about using miles to upgrade? We are flying Continental and we already have purchased our trip, do you know if its too late?

[Jacilynda]

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Originally Posted by jkcz0702 I was wondering about upgrades I usually save my miles for a free ticket we are going to Ireland at the end of the month how do we go about using miles to upgrade? We are flying Continental and we already have purchased our trip, do you know if its too late?

Oh no its definitely not too late! On continental you can do it up to 24 hours before departure. We often even buy miles to use for upgrades cause it's cheaper than paying for a business/first class ticket. I think Continental actually allows you to do it online. The number of miles you needs depends on what fare class your tickets were booked in. So if you bought a full fare ticket (highest price & refundable) you need 10,000 miles for each ticket to upgrade to Ireland, if you have lower fare class (discount price & non-refundable) then you need 20,000 miles each.

[CaboBride2010]

i think you girls are talking about different "miles" than Air Miles....as far as I know Air Miles is only a Canadian program....maybe I am wrong but as far as I know it is not American...feel free to tell me if im wrong though lol

[Jacilynda]

Every airline has air miles. Some call them something different to fit in w/ their name, but all have miles. You get miles for the miles you travel w/ them and can use them towards free tickets, upgrades, shops, hotels, restaurants, and can be used to buy passes to that airlines lounge in the airports. You can also buy miles for yourself or transfer miles.

 

Its a global thing hun!

 

For example i can get miles for my united air mileage or use my united miles on any of the following airlines:

 

ADRIA Airways

Lufthansa

Air Canada

SAS

Air China

Shanghai Airlines

Air New Zealand

Singapore Airlines

ANA

South African Airways

Asiana

Spanair

Austrian Airlines Group

Swiss International Air Lines

BLUE1

TAP Portugal

bmi

THAI

CROATIA Airlines

Turkish Airlines

EgyptAir

United

LOT Polish Airlines

US Airways

[CaboBride2010]

Air Miles is a card in Canada that doesnt apply to just one airline. You can only earn the miles but saying grocery shopping at certain stores that participate in the program every $20 in groceries you buy you get 1 Air Mile. we cant buy extra airmiles in this program and it can be so hard to find the places to try let the points build up. I was just confused if it was also American for the Air Mile program, but now I get what you are talking about, something like Aeroplan miles I guess.

https://www.airmiles.ca/arrow/Home;A...uestid=6340242

this is the site for the program I was thinking of when this thread came up..its the one I use sorry for the confusion I may have caused

[BachataBride]

CaboBride,

Yes...it's the actual air miles program that I was talking about!

And aeroplan is the miles program the Air Canada uses!

West Jet actually uses the air miles (blue card!) program!

 

It's so confusing!! There are so many rewards programs out there!!! LOL

I know even some banks offer travel miles (not to be confused with Air Miles or Aeroplan!) lol