BoardingArea is giving away a seat to the StarMegaDo4 to two lucky winners. The schedule of the event will take the winner from San Francisco to Houston to Chicago on board a chartered jet. This is the ultimate field trip for frequent flyers. The events will provide inside access and as many tips about points and miles that you can handle. This is one of your chances to get in on the trip for free, courtesy of BoardingArea.
How To Enter
You must reply to this post with your email address in the comment sections to be eligible. Answer the following question when leaving a comment in this official entry post.
What is the best travel nugget for a person just learning about traveling using points and miles?
- It could be anything from earning points to saving points to traveling better.
- {insert your answer in the comment section}
For additional chances to win, check out the other participating blogs here.
Prize & How To Win
The seat giveaway gift from Randy Petersen consists of one economy ticket on the 2012 StarMegaDo4, hotel accommodations at partner hotels, and $250 cash for personal expenses. Expenses not specified above, including, but not limited to ground transportation and incidentals, are winner’s responsibility.
Two (2) winners will be chosen in a random drawing on Monday, October 8, 2012 from all eligible entries received during the Giveaway Period, as posted in the comments section of participating BoardingArea.com partnering blogs. The random drawing will be conducted by Randy Petersen, whose decision is final and binding in all respects. The winner will be notified via email within two (2) days after the selection is made. Each winner will have five (5) business days to reply confirming his/her acceptance of the giveaway seat. Failure to reply in the indicated time frame will declare that the seat has been refused and forfeited for all time and the first alternative entry will be chosen in random drawings as outlined above and provided the opportunity to claim the seat giveaway.
Official Rules
The full official rules can be found here. *Entrants are limited to one submission per participating blog.
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Every time you fly or stay in a hotel, be sure to claim the miles or points, even if you don’t think you will fly that airline enough to earn a reward. You never know if they might merge with someone else or if your job might require you to start flying them.
Focus your points earning efforts early on (utilize partnerships / alliances, consider the cost / benefit of sticking with an airline or hotel chain even if it is slightly higher cost than others).
Start slow but be careful because it quickly becomes very addictive
Read a blog or two occasionally.
Before making every purchase, ask yourself if you are earning miles/points.
Sign up for at least one of the IDine (Rewards Network) programs.
Stick with one or two airlines and follow frequent flier blogs.
Almost everything you do – shop, travel, stay – can earn you miles/points. Use this to build up your stash even when doing normal daily stuff.
Your monthly bills are a great way to start earning points by shifting to pay with a Mileage/points CC
read flyertalk.com and milepoint.com
open credit cards with high sign up bonuses and then keep using them to collect miles on all expenses
Try to be as flexible when traveling as possible; and pay everything with credit card if possible. A check? What’s that.
Read the boardingarea.com blogs to maximize your points and trips!
Schedule a date on your calendar at least once per year to review all of your accounts. Make sure that nothing is due to expire and adjust any plans accordingly.
Follow the blogs. Great tips and travel reports.
read the blogs, flyertalk, and milepoint regulary
Read Boarding Area blogs.
Read your blog!
use a service like AwardWallet. For people starting out, it’s usually not earning points… It’s how many programs there are, what points they have already earned, and when/what they have to do to keep them from expiring!
Don’t let your points expire! There are easy ways to keep your account active (crediting a car rental to a frequent flier account, buying a magazine subscription, etc.)
Have multiple ways to earn points, and concentrate them on one hotel and one airline.
Make sure that you start with one program, complete the top tier in it, then move on to the next one. Don’t try to hit mid-tier in a bunch.
Pick one airline program and one hotel program, and focus to earn points in those programs to meet your travel needs. Thanks.
Read BoardingArea.
Bookmark http://m.boardingarea.com/ 😉
Read blogs (flytalk, milpoint, boarding area, etc) a
While it’s always good to try to focus your flying on one airline or alliance, don’t forget about the non-alliance partners for both earning and burning miles.
don’t leave miles on the table. If you are not rushing to book to get a super sale, take time to research a double/triple/quadruple dip. sign up for promos whether you think you will use or not, plans change and sometimes you will be surprised nicely. sign up for the dining programs.
Remember to strike a balance between collecting points and using them – there’s no good sense in having a big pile of points and never redeeming them!
As long as you always pay your cc balances in full every month and already have a great credit score, you can churn with abandon following the 90 day application cycle.
Make it your religion….check how many points / miles will you earn even at th eDollar store before you buy ANYTHING !
When you’re new you should figure out your projected travel patterns so you can intelligently figure out which alliances/hotel chains are best for your pattern of travel.
Get a credit card churn started. And of course, read the bloggers.
Have a goal, such as an award ticket to Hawaii, that you are working for. Otherwise points and miles get used for trips of less value
Read boarding area blogs and million mile secrets, concentrate on one or two frequent travel programs, get some bonus miles with credit cards, and see the world!
Always follow up when checking out of a hotel for your points. I must have missed out on about 70K points in a hotel chain because I did not pay attention to this little detail.
Never forget to take a trip and actually enjoy your miles.
If you ever spend money & not putting it on a mileage/points earning card you are doing it wrong!
Learn all you can about credit card bonuses.
Your credit score is a very important asset…protect it!
No need to hoard or be greedy…have fun with it!
Learn and listen to the old-timers…like Randy and Rick.
You gotta pay attention…pay your credit cards in full…every month…all the time!!!! PERIOD!!!!
Read great blogs like “Points Miles and Martinis” for info about credit card bonuses. Choose only those cards with minimum spends you can handle. Above all……… pay your cards off each month on time. Protect your credit! That’s the key!
open up a frequent flier membership with the travel provider you are using if you cannot credit it to anything else. Might go to waste in the end but you never know!
Read the available blogs and MilePoint for tips and tricks and make sure to apply for accounts with all available programs – you never know when you may stay or fly with a new provider.
Sign up for every program you can. You never know when you will get an amazing offer for one, plus ones like Delta Dining give you a jumpstart of 2500 miles for one dine!
Once you have learnt the art of maximizing earning miles make sure you maximize using them too – dont waste on cheap domestic flights etc – get maximum routing and stopovers