Frequent Flyer Programs

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It is unknown and is not the sort of information that airlines release as the information would be valuable to a competitor.

As a member of MilagePlus flying one-way, discount economy, you'll earn around 3466 points for your 3466 mile trip.

Swiss Airlines is part of the Star Alliance. this includes United Airlines, US Airways, Lufthansa and Air Canada and quite a few more.

All of the major airlines allow you to give your frequent flyer miles to friends and family or transfer the miles to another account holder with the same airline

Typically 60,000 and sometimes more

EGYPTAIR is a partner in the Star Alliance network, of which US Airways is also a member.

That is a matter of opinion. It is likely in the next 10 years that some governments will find a way of taxing these frequent flyer miles.

the frequent flier customer loyalty program used by Delta Airlines--allows members to accrue miles through travel with the airline or its partners. Members can later redeem the miles for free flights, travel upgrades and even shopping opportunities, once they reach a specific membership category.

China Airline's frequent flyer program is called Dynasty Flyer. Partner airlines are Mandarin Airlines and China Southern Airlines.

Yes. The airlines consider Orbitz to be a travel agency in this regard. When you make an Orbitz booking, you will have an opportunity to enter your frequent flyer number. If you don't do it then, you can do it later, or contact the airline after your flight for retroactive credit.

It varies but generally about 500,000 Frequent Flier miles is a good guide for a RTW -Round The World ticket. There would be more for travelling first class and less if you chose off-peak travel times and if you avoided the southern hemisphere.

It depends on the airline. Most want you to join their program and allow you on their website to join and get the miles after you have flown provided it is within a certain length of time.

Yes, AMEX are heavily involved with frequent flier programs. They have a very strong agreement with Delta airlines.

It depends. The lowest possible number is 12,500. That is for economy class travel, in the low season (Sept. 7 - Nov. 14 in 2013) and on flights where the initial allocation of award seats hasn't been used up yet (so book early).

Outside low season, it's 17,500 miles. To sit in the big seats in the front of the plane, it's 30,000 miles any time of year.

If you book late and all the initial award seats have been taken, you can still get an award seat for twice that number of miles.

Those are one-way figures. Double them if you want to get back to Philly. Flights in each direction don't have to use the same number of miles. For instance, you can decide to fly in coach one way but return in business class. Or, you may get a flight one way that still has low-mileage seats available, but you may not find one like that in the other direction.

Call the airline and tell them you've forgotten the number. They will most likely let you change it, but you will have to provide proof that you are who you say you are.

No, those miles were not lost. Delta stepped in and honored all the miles from members they could find in that database and combine those accounts with those of the Delta Frequent Flyer program (now SkyMiles) at the time. There may be some accounts that could not be reconciled, but Delta and the last staff of Pan Am tried to make right for those members.

At time of PanAm's demise, Delta even provided a window during which PanAm frequent flyers could redeem their mileage for flights aboard Delta at PanAm award levels. Remaining mileage left over in PanAm accounts was then merged into DL Skymiles accounts.

Yes, they are both part of the Skyteam Alliance and the miles may be used inter-changeably.

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It depends on the airline. Most want you to join their program and allow you to join and get the miles after you have flown provided it is within a certain length of time, on their website. To do so before you take a flight, is even easier. A call to customer services will do it or it can be done through the airline website.

American Airways offers a frequent flyer program that can be used on any of their flights, including international.

The things that airline miles are redeemed for depends on the company involved in the transaction. However, many companies offer airmiles to be redeemed for free upgrading of seats on an airplane, hotels, rental cars, gift cards, bus tickets, vacations, cruises, and other products offered.

Most airlines flying into or out of Canada have a Frequent Flier program that allows for accumulating and using air miles.

Air Canada certainly does and they are part of the Star Alliance program and any airline in this alliance can acquire and use frequent flier miles on Air Canada. See the related link for more details.

Many other airlines have similar deals and alliances in/out of Canada.

There are many advantages of signing up for airmiles. Some of the advantages of signing up for airmiles include receiving free flights and receiving free food.

Western Flyer ended in 1997.