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I'm new to using mileage & I have 2 credit cards with miles...I need to get to Australia & I'm on a tight budget.
Can I get some guidance from anyone on what to do?

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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2012, 10:40:10 AM »
I'm new to using mileage & I have 2 credit cards with miles...I need to get to Australia & I'm on a tight budget.
Can I get some guidance from anyone on what to do?

Which credit cards do u have?

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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2012, 10:40:49 AM »
if you want help you will need to post what miles you have

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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2012, 10:45:18 AM »
if you want help you will need to post what miles you have

+1 and post it in the master thread for searching award trips.

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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2012, 11:02:52 AM »
60K points from Citicards & 35,500 points from Amex

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Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2012, 11:04:24 AM »
I have 60K points from Citicards "thank you" & 35,500 points from Amex Blue Sky & need to fly to Australia (Sydney) from NYC on a budget...I don't know where to begin with mileage.
Can someone help guide me, please

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Re: Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2012, 11:06:23 AM »
I have 60K points from Citicards "thank you" & 35,500 points from Amex Blue Sky & need to fly to Australia (Sydney) from NYC on a budget...I don't know where to begin with mileage.
Can someone help guide me, please
Neither of those are real mileage cards, you can get 1 cent per mile for paid tickets.
When do you need to go? How many seats? How is your credit how many SSN's do you have access to?
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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2012, 11:26:43 AM »
I'm flexible on timing. I'd like to go in approximately a month, maybe for Chanukah. I understand nothing about mileage or credit cards. I have access to Social Security #'s. Credit is ok on some, not great on others. If possible, this may be a smoother process by phone. Happy to give you my #...

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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2012, 07:40:23 PM »
Can anyone help...I really am clueless at the mileage situation & would like to use my mileage....

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Re: Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2012, 07:42:12 PM »
Can anyone help...I really am clueless at the mileage situation & would like to use my mileage....

With what you have now you could use the Citi points to cover the cost of some of the ticket.

Now if you want to start opening some Ccs to start building some accounts that's another story.

How's the credit score? History?
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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2012, 07:46:14 PM »
Can anyone help...I really am clueless at the mileage situation & would like to use my mileage....

Surprisingly, DL miles come in real handy for US-SYD/BNE.

But it's very unlikely you'll be able to pull it all tog in a month.
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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2012, 08:14:58 PM »
Credit score & history are good.
What are DL miles? (Now you know how clueless I am)
What should my next move be?
What type of time frame am I working on?
Also, when do tickets get cheap to go from NYC to SYD?

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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2012, 08:17:51 PM »
DL = Delta Skymiles.

If you wanna use miles, you'll either have to buy some, or postpone your trip. No way I can see you racking up enough to make this happen in a month.
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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2012, 08:27:11 PM »
Thanks for explaining.

So what's my next move? Where do I go from here? Apply for a Delta card?

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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2012, 08:38:00 PM »
Thanks for explaining.

So what's my next move? Where do I go from here? Apply for a Delta card?

There are a couple ways to get DL miles:

DL cards & AmEx cards thats accrue Membership Rewards (which transfer into DL miles).

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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #15 on: November 04, 2012, 08:41:27 PM »
There are a couple ways to get DL miles:

DL cards & AmEx cards thats accrue Membership Rewards (which transfer into DL miles).
+Starwood
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Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2012, 08:46:01 PM »
3bm. Starwood, DL 75k?, plat 50k.
Can you spend 10k in 1 month??


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Re: Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2012, 08:50:20 PM »
3bm. Starwood, DL 75k?, plat 50k.
Can you spend 10k in 1 month??
DL 75K? Live link? But with plat 50K and dl 40K and Starwood will be enough for one coach ticket
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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2012, 08:51:05 PM »
3bm. Starwood, DL 75k?, plat 50k.
you can 'spend' 10k in 1 month
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Re: Need to fly to Australia. Have miles & don't know where & how to begin
« Reply #19 on: November 04, 2012, 09:17:51 PM »
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