Ingredients of Frequent-Flier Travel
I enjoyed Lori Mayfield’s account of buying under duress 16,000 American Airlines miles (and 160 boxes of cereal) for $640 (“A Passage to India Paved With Bran Flakes and Mueslix,” Traveler’s Journal, March 31).
Though I have not been in her position, I’m an obsessive miles hoarder. Through various promotional and customer loyalty-building programs, companies offer countless ways to earn frequent-flier miles. Spend a buck and get back 2 cents’, 10 cents’, even a dollar’s worth of miles.
* Use a credit card, get back 2 cents per dollar.
* Rent a car, get 3 cents.
* Stay in a hotel, get 10 cents.
* Eat at certain restaurants, get 20 cents--22 if you use a mileage-accruing credit card.
* Buy Kellogg’s cereal, get 50 cents per dollar. Or wait until Kellogg’s is on sale at $3, use a $1 coupon and pay $2 a box.
DAVID HORNE
Los Angeles
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