Business Airline Miles
American Airlines 15,000 Mile Award Tickets
American Airlines is offering AAdvantage Miles members a bargain with short-hop, non-stop, economy awards tickets beginning at a rock bottom 15,000 miles. These specials are available on American Airlines, American Eagle and American Connection between September 1, 2007, and February 29, 2008.
The list of available city pairs is pretty lenghty, but you can view it here.
Enjoy your free ride!
Date: July 17th, 2007 |
The Business Travel Widget
Can’t get enough of the Business Travel Logue? Well, now you can have your very own BTL widget on YOUR website! Thanks to the brains behind the operation, a Business Travel Logue widget is now available. This handy tool will allow you (and others) to keep up to date on all of the latest business travel news.
Get it here and feel free to plaster me all over the web.
Date: June 30th, 2007 |
United Airlines Miles for Moving
United Airlines is offering Mileage Plus miles for program members who use a participating mover to move. You can earn up to 10,000 miles (1 mile per $1 spent) for moving.
To find out if there are participating moving companies in your area, enter your zip code in the search engine at United Easy Miles, which can also help you earn miles for selling or buying a home.
Throw your zip code into the little search box on United Easy Miles and find out whether movers in your area are participating…
Date: June 24th, 2007 |
American Airlines and Citi Card 20-Year Anniversary Promotions
Citi Cards and American Airlines are celebrating their 20th anniversary off the Citi/AAdvantage credit card (the card that allows customers to earn American Airlines AAdvantage miles for purchases). In celebration, cardmembers have a chance to join in the fun with several promotions and activities, while also raising AAdvantage miles for American Airlines- supported organizations, including Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and a children’s charity.
The companies have lined up a variety of promotions and special offers for the anniversary, including the following:
Experience Auction: Beginning …
Date: June 7th, 2007 |
MileMaven Airline Miles

MileMaven is a site that lets users maximize the number of airline miles earned for any particular site. MileMaven is the sister site of PointMaven (which helps users maximize hotel rewards points) I wrote about a few weeks ago.
MileMaven will search for bonus deals on various airlines when you enter the two places between which you plan to travel. So when I entered LIT to LAX, MileMaven let me know that I could get Double Miles on All Routes from NWA, 500 bonus miles for booking online through several …
Date: May 15th, 2007 |
United Airlines Preferred Status Trial
United Airlines is offering Dividend Miles members the opportunity to purchase a trial membership of it’s Preferred Program. For 90 days, the member can revel in the benefits of preferred status, including priority check-in and boarding, unlimited upgrades and more. Yes, they want you to fork out the dough to get this deal.
Regular members can upgrade for the following: Silver - $200; Gold - $400; Platinum - $600
Silver members can upgrade for the following: Gold - $200; Platinum - $400
And Gold members can upgrade for the following: Platinum - $200
After purchasing the upgrade, …
Date: July 13th, 2007 |
United Mileage Plus and Ameritrade
With United Airlines Mileage Plus Program, you can earn up to 25,000 miles for opening an account with Ameritrade. That should be enough miles for a free domestic round trip ticket. All you have to do is open and fund a TD Ameritrade account.
TD Ameritrade gives you the trading tools you need and $9.99 commissions on internet equity trades no matter how many shares you buy.
For details, go to www.tdameritrade.com/united.
Date: June 25th, 2007 |
AirTran Airways A+ Rewards Partnership with Hospitality Brands Bedding
For those of you who are AirTran Airways A+ members AND you have orthopedic problems, here is a deal for you. AirTran has entered in to a partnership with Hospitality Brands, Inc., which will allow frequent fliers to earn A+ Rewards credits when they purchase a Sealy Posturepedic or Stearns & Foster mattress set at http://www.creditswhileyousleep.com. Members can earn up to 16 A+ Rewards credits, which is enough for a round trip coach reward ticket for purchasing through the website.
“We are excited to work with Hospitality Brands to offer …
Date: June 23rd, 2007 |
United Airlines Mileage Plus W300i Walkman Phone Bonus
United Airlines is offering Mileage Plus members 5,000 miles when you get the Sony Ericsson W300i Walkman Phone FREE after instant discount with a new Cingular Wireless account from Mileage Plus Wireless. To recap, that’s a free phone AND bonus miles. The W300i features everything from an MP3 player, FM radio with 8 presets, camera, Bluetooth technology, infrared port, expandable memory card slot, and speakerphone. Sounds WAY cooler than my RAZR (which I would very much like to throw off my balcony right now). I am a long-time …
Date: May 17th, 2007 |
Northwest Airlines Online Gift Registry
Northwest Airlines offers an online gift registry of airline miles. Interesting. It would be more interesting if Northwest wasn’t so shisty and allowed you to use the miles once you’ve earned them. Or maybe they’ve just done that to me. I’m not sure how this fits in to business travel exactly, but the information is worth passing along to frequent travelers.
To begin your registry, go to nwa.com/giftregistry. You can request a specific dollar amount and create your own website describing your travel plans and …
Date: May 6th, 2007 |