Airline Fanatic

1-800-Flowers.com is running a killer promotion with Delta SkyMiles from now through December 15th.  1-800-Flowers.com is offering 10 Delta SkyMiles for every dollar spent, plus a flat 2500 bonus miles on every order.  So lets say you buy flowers for $30, that would be 300 miles plus the bonus 2500 miles for a total of 2800 miles.  That works out to around 93 miles per dollar spent, an astronomical rate of conversion.  Keep in mind that doesn’t include shipping fees or any other fees they may tack on.  Since its the holiday season you should have no trouble finding plenty of excuses to send flowers around, so get started collecting those miles!

To take advantage of this incredible offer you have to use promotion code DL8 when prompted, simple as that!

[Via FlyerTalk]

This apparently happened a while ago, but it just came across my radar screen. United Airlines has “enhanced” their frequent flier program yet again, by disallowing 500-mile upgrade coupons from rolling over into your mileage account balance.

For years, Premier members of the Mileage Plus program have received “500-mile” coupons (now electronic) that upgraded your North American flights from coach to first class. (You get four of these coupons every time you reach 10,000 flown miles on the airline. One coupon can upgrade you for 500 miles of distance flown; thus the “500-miler” moniker.) If you couldn’t use your 500-milers, they’d expire after one year, but all was not lost: They converted to 500 redeemable frequent flyer miles in your account.

Not any more.

In another “enhancement” of the Mileage Plus program, 500-milers won’t convert to frequent flyer miles upon expiration anymore. They’ll just expire worthless if you don’t cash them in. (And let me tell you from personal experience, they’ve gotten harder and harder to actually put to use.)

And the march towards better customer service continues!

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