Frequent flyers

[SKY HIGH]

Attention US Airways fliers who have not used their frequent flier accounts the past few years: you may be in danger of losing them unless you act in the next two weeks.


The airline said Monday it's planning to erase the frequent-flier accounts of customers who have had zero activity in at least three years, as part of its merger with America West. Charlotte's dominant carrier wouldn't say how many people could be affected, only that most are people with small mileage balances.
The airline has been sending warning letters to Dividend Miles account holders in danger of having their miles expire. It warns them to post some kind of activity by Feb. 15 or risk losing all their miles.
Joel Thompson, a Charlotte executive, got such a letter from US Airways. At risk: 200,000 miles, or enough for four coach seats to Paris. "The old saying `Out of sight, out of mind' goes for this!" Thompson said in an e-mail.
Fliers have a few options to preserve their miles, outside of booking a flight on US Airways and traveling before Feb. 15.

LINK: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/liv...rlotte_business

 

[ringmaruf]

If you haven't had activity in your DM account for three years, then you're by no definition a "frequent flyer", and probably deserve to have them disappear.

 

[JayBrian]

This is standard policy with most airlines frequent flyer programs. All it takes is any miles earning or spending activity to extend your mileage expiration for another three years. Most hotel programs expire their points in one year with no activity.

 

[Art at ISP]

This is really nothing new, although HP was among the first to do it in the late 80's. I had over 60K go up in smoke after flying alot in 1989-90.

 

[US1YFARE]

I had over 60K go up in smoke after flying alot in 1989-90.

that is a lot of magazines.