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11.
Read your statements and know exactly what your frequent flyer program
offers, and watch for changes and special promotions. Without monthly activity,
you must check the online web site in person for most programs. Sign-up for online
mileage statements to help you remember. 12.
Sign-up for one of the programs that help you manage your miles. Time spent
up front to provide the details on your accounts will be worth the time and trouble
for the small fee. Sharing the duty with an employee or home partner who is better
at details, or who has more time, is another option. For
the business traveler, finding time or coordinating schedules and destinations
can be difficult when you want to mix business with pleasure, friends, and family.
Vacations are important though, for rejuvenation, and to build and maintain relationships.
Besides benefiting directly from miles, they can also bring family and friends
to you-at home, or along on trips. Mileage makes it easier to take time for you,
your family and friends. Even if you aren't able to use them today, frequent flyer
miles come in handy at different periods of life and times, sometimes unexpectedly.
Examples
of my rewards, which you too could enjoy, from banked miles: My husband and I
married in Jamaica via first class no-cost air transportation. We traveled to
Australia in business class for a 3-week vacation. A Budapest, Hungary visit became
reality when I replaced high-priced fares with accumulated frequent flyer miles.
My sister & I skied in Colorado with free airfare. A Richmond, Virginia land
investment visit netted an airline ticket at no charge by redeeming miles. To
San Francisco, I spent miles for a ticket where I spoke at a trade conference.
My brother's family vacationed with us over Easter on my earned miles. A friend
visited his Vermont hometown with friends he wouldn't have seen otherwise, with
my miles paying the airfare. My Grandmother spent a month in Ohio compliments
of my "paid for" air miles. Your
opportunities are endless. Start today to earn all the miles and vacation you
can get!
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