You can earn up to 4000 free Alitalia miles as follows:For joining the MILLEMIGLIA program, you get 2000 free miles if you fly with Alitalia or its Partner Airlines or if you use the services offered by the Program's Commercial Partners within three months of registering. (sounds like it might be enough to stay with one of their hotel partners or something)
You can join here:
https://www.alitalia.com/en_us/special-pages/subscribe_mm_program.htmlOunce you join MILLEMIGLIA, you can sign up for something called "millemiglia-young" if you are 25 and younger and get 2000 miles absolutly FREE with no need to fly or do anything else!
you sign up through your online MiLLEMIGLIA profile under "personal data" by checking the box at the bottom of the section.
In addition to the free 2000 miles, millemiglia-young members earn 50% more miles on flights.
For example, the $369-$448 flights from TLV-NYC I posted earlier are in O class earning 50% milage flown which comes out to 5695 miles earned on the flight. With millemiglia-young, O fares earn 75% of miles flown so your earning rate would be 8542 miles. (plus the 4000 free miles would get you a total of 12,542).
For business class flights you earn 450% of miles flown!!! With the TLV-NYC $1121 deal I posted today, you would earn 51,255 miles on one flight!!! (plus the 4000 free miles would get you to 55,255). More than needed for a one way TLV-NYC business class award ticket (38,400) just 9,000 miles away from a round trip award in Business class
Another great perk is that you get back 20% of the miles you redeem even if you book a milage ticket for someone else. this essentially makes a TLV-NYC round trip Business class award 64,000 miles!!!