Collect Frequent Flyer Points and Save a Packet!Category: Travel & Holidays
Article added by: Paul Collins
Whether you’re a jet setting businessman or a particularly active holidaymaker or traveler, few things are as satisfying as racking up the frequent flyer points. There’s nothing, after all, that’s like getting a little something back for all that cash you’ve spent on air travel.
Get it wrong, though, and invest your loyalty in a flighty (no pun intended!) airline, and you could find yourself losing thousands of those hard-earned frequent flyer points. So it’s important that you choose your program carefully, and go for a reliable, steady frequent flyer points scheme.
Long-haul Means Big Savings
For US air passengers particularly, Frequentflier.com is a good place to start. Their forums are packed with handy tips, and the latest developments with airlines’ programs.
Webflyer.com is another good source of news and views on where the best deals can be had (although there, too, the emphasis tends to be more for the American or Australian long-haul traveler.) They rather thoughtfully provide a mileage converter, so you can figure what you should have coming to you in terms of points.
But all the action on frequent flyer incentives is by no means limited to the States or Australia. Far from it, in fact. In Europe, too, there are plenty of airlines and travel companies that provide eye-catching incentives to be loyal to them.
Savings in Spanish
For Spanish (as well as Italian and Portuguese) speakers, there’s one very attractive option, in particular: Logitravel.com. And if their frequent flyer loyalty scheme puts a pretty persuasive argument to book your flights with them, then the prices themselves, if anything, are even more compelling.
Some of their best prices are on internal Spanish flights: It’s hard, for example, to find the match of their vuelos Tenerife Madrid, while they’ve also got plenty to offer flying further afield. Compare their vuelos Madrid Londres with pretty much anyone else out there, and they invariably come out on top.
As well as some pretty serious bargains on flights, another Spanish company – Iberia – also brings a tasty frequent flyers program to the table.
Big Names – Big Offers
Two more of the big hitters – Aer Lingus and the mighty British Airways – are another couple of (European-based, at least) airlines that work hard to lure in passengers by putting forward attractive frequent flyer packages.
Obviously who you use depends very much on the sort of routes you’re going to be taking. There’s little point signing up to one company’s frequent flyers program, if the airline in question isn’t going to the same destinations you need to get to.
Another good thing to remember is that points shouldn’t be left idle, as the program can always change. If you’ve built up a large number of points, it’s a good idea to keep an eye on the programs on offer: even some of the above airlines have been known to sneak in a change or two from time to time!
Other than that, though, there’s really nothing to lose. You pick up points for the miles you fly; the more you fly (and the more money you spend), the more points you get in return. When you think about it, it’s only fair, after all…
Posted By: Paul Collins
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| About the Author: |
| Paul Collins is a UK-based travel writer whose focus is on money-saving tips and cost-cutting travel programs. Over the course of countless vuelos Madrid Londres he’s developed a fair few points with the frequent flyers program of Logitravel.com. |
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