Maximising your air miles benefits

To collect air miles you don't have to be a frequent flyer. The fact is, one of the best ways to get points IS NOT BY FLYING!

I'm going to introduce you to the secret of accumulating frequent flyer points for free travel. I want to get right to the point and teach you how to generate large amounts of miles that you can redeem for free travel.

Recent survey revealed nearly 50% of frequent flyers weren't subscribed to any frequent flyer program!

In a recent survey, I discovered nearly 50% of the flyers I polled did not belong to a single air miles or frequent flyer program. I couldn't believe it. So I asked my agents who work in my travel office if this number was consistent with people who purchase discount airline tickets from us.

(Remember me telling you I own a travel agency?)

And to my continued amazement, it was. All my agents told me that about half of our clients would respond in the negative when asked if they participated in a frequent flyer program.

Wow! About half of the flying public not taking advantage of a freebie! Right now, you may be thinking, "David, I don't fly often enough to mess with it, I'm not a frequent flyer." That, my friend, is wrong thinking. The frequent flyer and air miles programs have evolved into a HUGE marketing program for the airlines. I read recently that for one US airline, it was the most profitable portion of their business.

Air miles and frequent flyer programs are here to stay and YOU need to learn how take advantage of them.

Every major airline on the planet has an air miles or frequent flyer program. Oh, they may call it by another name, but the essence is this: "fly on our jets and we'll give you points to redeem for something in the future."

Its called, "adding incentive." Like I said, this has evolved into a huge program. Frequent flyer points are given as an incentive for a host of things: mortgages, investing, purchases, etc. By adding the incentive of points that eventually become free travel, these institutions entice you to buy their product or service.

And now, with airlines forming partnerships with other airlines and merging their air miles programs, the possibilities increase dramatically. This becomes a great opportunity for you. For instance, a couple summers ago, I took my wife to Eastern Europe for two weeks. We flew on Air France, but since Air France and Delta are partner airlines, I dumped the 12,000 air miles points into my Delta account, rather than in an Air France account.

Here is the wisdom in that. I fly Delta regularly and already have a very healthy Delta account. I'd never flown Air France before and not intending to in the future, I just had a chance to pick up some really cheap tickets for summer travel.

I knew the points accumulated could be added to my Delta account, rather than starting a new Air France account. See what I mean? Flew one airline and the points went into another account, all because of a partnership between the two airlines.

Listen to this. I've accumulated enough frequent flyer points with Northwest Airlines for a free ticket and not once set foot on one of their planes. How did I do it? By using the various methods described in the next chapter.

Now you can redeem frequent flyer points for almost anything; gifts, vacations, airline tickets, magazine subscriptions. The list is almost endless. But I believe, and what this guide is about, that redeeming points for free travel is the GREATEST VALUE of all frequent flyer points. That may be the reason why all these other gifts and options have been added, to distract you from the greater value.

Buy Airline Frequent Flyer Miles! Purchase frequent flyer miles as a gift for friends and associates or for your own account.

Let me repeat that again, its so profound, yet simple, that its easy to miss it. Your frequent flyer points are at their greatest value when you redeem them for free travel. And there are many ways to accumulate those points other than flying!

For those of you who don't think you fly enough to belong to a frequent flyer program, let me clue you in to a little secret. The majority of your points can be accumulated by other means than flying. The object, remember, is to fly free.

Step One: Get enrolled in every airline frequent flyer program possible, its FREE. The Resource Chapter will help you with this step.

The object is to fly free. So the majority of your points are accumulated by other means, rather than by flying itself.

Now this is where it gets interesting. There are a vast number of ways to accumulate frequent flyer points. My employees call me a "frequent flyer junkie." They know I am always looking for a way to get points into my account. I'm a "meister" at accumulating points.

The above is a free extract from fascinating book called "why not fly for free" written by a travel agent called David Tinney, it details insider ways of getting cheap and in some cases free flights. It has certainly opened up my eyes to the travel industry and given me new ideas for cut price vacations.

Take a closer look at this book through this link to find out more about maximising your air miles benefits and numerous other ways to get free or cheap flights


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