I Wiped Out My Frequent Flyer Miles Accounts, Well Almost

June 30, 2009 - Rick

Photo: Three Sisters Katoomba, Australia

I’ve had all these darn Delta miles and finally found someone in need. Hooray for me and him. So my inventory is down to:

30K UA miles, 2 SWU, 13 e-500s, and $2,550 voucher

95K AA miles(I owe a friend 25K of those), 16-500 mile stickers, and recently added $1,300 in vouchers and gift cards for my assault on the Platinum Challenge, the 2 Million lifetime mark, and Lifetime Platinum Status

140K Starwood Preferred Guest points, a nice round number. I heard a great story today from an SPG rep. I asked him what was the largest balance he had ever heard of in SPG points. He told me he talked to a guy with 4.5 million SPG points in his account. When he asked the customer if he wanted to use some of them the customer replied, no he was paying cash and saving his points for a later date. At 3.5 cents per point, that is over $155,000 in SPG points. The fun I could have with that pile of points.Back to my measly totals:

50K Marriott Points

135K Hilton Points

60K Priority Club Points

This is the first time in a long time I have been heavy on hotel points and it feels good.

The New Zealand trip in December is taken care of as far as the flights and 16 of the 16 nights are paid for.

Hawaii in December for the Big Island and Kauai is also paid off with the flights, the upgrades already confirmed, and the hotels booked and covered.

My recent addition of Hawaii again in April at $280 round-trip each is booked, upgrades accounted for, and 7 nights at the Marriott Kauai booked and taken care of.

So I’m ahead of the travel game for another year. I’ll rack up the airline miles for a spring trip to Eastern Europe in April and May 2010 and certainly have the hotel points covered already.

And Miss Katy already has 80K in AA miles with another 30K coming from a recent application.

We have the correct status in airlines and hotels through all of 2010 and up to March 1 2011, except we are 3 nights short of Marriott stays to maintain Gold by year end.

Is it possible we are looking ahead to 2011 travel already? I sure hope so.

It feels like we are starting all over after the Around the World adventure. That will be a tough one to top. But I am still ooking hunting and scrounging for more deals, points and miles.

Thanks for letting me take my inventory. It always feels better to put it down on paper.

I Wiped Out My Frequent Flyer Miles Accounts, Well Almost

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