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Earn More Miles With Your Reward Earning Card

  First thing that you should do right away is to link your frequent-flyer account with your airline card. Without doing this, many airlines won’t even recognize you as if you qualify for free checked bags or not. Moreover, with many airlines like JetBlue and United Airlines, you will need to pay for your airline ticket with your airline card only in order to qualify for free checked bag benefit.   While traveling abroad you can use airline cards as there is no foreign transaction fees on many airline cards. This is because you get reward points for every single airline purchase that you make with your airline cards, it often ranges from 2 to more miles per dollar spent. So, you should consider using your airline card for purchasing airline tickets, in-flight purchases and other expenditures related to airlines. Basically, enhance your card by using and learning about the features that your airline frequent flyer card is linked to.   Other cards that you can consider There ar

Top Airline Reward Programs

There are so many surveys that conducts around the world that gives ranking to the reward programs of airlines. These rankings are based on the ease of redeeming their airline miles. There are some other parameters also. Today I will be discussing the top performing airline reward programs that always rank higher and have something special to offer their clients. These programs always keep on upgrading their programs to make it more exciting for their loyal customers. Let’s discuss them without any further delay.   Airline with best reward programs for frequent flyers It is surprising to sea that not any of the big airline could do what a domestic airline like Southwest has done with returned 100 percent availability of reward seats for their frequent flyers. Some of the other airlines that are in very close competition are Air Canada, Turkish Airways, JetBlue and Lufthansa.   High value programs with low cost The budget airlines performs better than expensive airlines when

A Brief History of Airline Miles Programs

  You might wonder how these miles rewards and point that you have been collecting from years by flying and staying in hotels cam into existence. United Airlines is first documented airline that started tracking their customers. In 1972, they started the first flyer reward program for their customers. Unlike today when we get incentives, airlines used to appreciate their loyal customers with awards.   The flyers program got a boost in 1979 when Texas International Airlines started tracking the miles of travel instead of counting the tickets purchased. Till 80s many big airlines like Delta, Western, American, Air Canada and British Airways also joined the league and that’s when the flyer programs and incentives for frequent flyers got to another level. According to a research more than 14 trillion frequent flyer points collected by flyers till 2005.   Later, the partnerships of Airlines and Credit card companies gave birth to another revolution in flyer programs. This partnershi

New To Cash For Airline Miles? Learn Types Of Rewards

  Just like crypto, bonds, shares, foreign currencies and money, your travel miles and reward points can pay your travels. You can also earn some cash by selling your airline miles and Amex reward points. However, each travel reward points have their own value just like different foreign currencies. If you are new to cash for miles journey you may want to know about different types of travel rewards mentioned bellow.   Airline miles rewards There are many airlines and so there are airline miles specific to each airline. United MileagePlus miles is one such airline mile. However, to earn united miles you need to register for frequent flyer account. You can also get a co-branded credit card of united miles. With such credit cards you will be able to earn united miles by even using it for general purchases also. Miles earned through traveling in united airlines depends on various factors like seat you booked, the distance of your journey and the cost you have paid to book your airli