{"id":639,"date":"2011-07-18T04:51:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T04:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2013-01-08T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T18:44:39","slug":"becoming-a-frequent-flier-mile-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"How I Became a Frequent Flier Mile Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be honest, I wasn&#8217;t born with the knowledge that I&#8217;ve obtained about being a Frequent Flier Mile professional.\u00a0 In fact, I need to make a confession.\u00a0 At one point I even allowed my AAdvantage Miles to expire.\u00a0 I have since learned that allowing your frequent flier miles to expire is one of the seven cardinal sins.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always been a wanderluster.\u00a0 I have always loved to travel.\u00a0 When I was a young child I used to tell my dad &#8220;Wherever dad goes&#8230;.I go.&#8221;\u00a0 I have always watched for great travel deals, but never understood how to fly for free.\u00a0 My diligence in watching for good deals has paid off a number of times.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve gone to Panama for $230 round trip from SLC, sent friends and family to Costa Rica and Belize for $250 out of SLC as well,\u00a0 amongst other great deals.\u00a0 It seems like things seem to taste better when they are free though, right?<\/p>\n<p>Last September I caught the wanderlust.\u00a0 I must admit that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frugaltravelguy.com\">frugaltravelguy<\/a> was the source of my inspiration.\u00a0 He talked about the <a title=\"American Airlines 75,000 AAdvantage\u00a0Citi\" href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/06\/07\/american-airlines-75000-aadvantage-citi\/\">75,000 American Airlines AAdvantage <\/a>frequent flier deal for months.\u00a0 I watched him diligently and made a calculated decision to jump.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a pretty skeptical guy and I was very proud of my 800 credit score.\u00a0 <a title=\"How Credit\u00a0Works\" href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/07\/15\/how-credit-works\/\">I didn&#8217;t want to do anything that might hurt my credit.<\/a>\u00a0 Little did I know at the time that it had a very small and very short lived affect to my score.\u00a0 Since then I&#8217;ve done lots of research and watched a lot of people hit great deals.<\/p>\n<p>After I got the <a title=\"American Airlines 75,000 AAdvantage\u00a0Citi\" href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/06\/07\/american-airlines-75000-aadvantage-citi\/\">75,000 AAdvantage<\/a> deal I was excited because I had almost 100,000 frequent flier miles in the bank.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After I had met the spending requirement I decided to apply for that same card for my wife.\u00a0 When she was approved and we met the spending requirements I was ecstatic. \u00a0\u00a0 I told everyone that I knew about the deal.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure that my friends and family were bored to tears about me talking about the deals that I had hit. I would be that between Brad and I we hooked people up with over 50 cards.\u00a0 Some people took our advice, others mocked with <a title=\"Managing Your\u00a0Credit\" href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/2011\/06\/25\/managing-your-credit\/\">various credit fallacies<\/a>, so it was a mixed bag, but it sure was fun to share.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I felt a great deal of satisfaction in helping others create memories that last a lifetime.<\/strong>\u00a0 I know how much traveling has helped me to mature and love other people, and that is one of the best gifts that can be given.<\/p>\n<p>My brother, Brad, was just as excited as I was.\u00a0 Before we knew it we were both applying for cards on a very calculated basis so we could start racking up the points and miles.\u00a0 Between he and his wife, and my wife and I we&#8217;ve scored\u00a0 over a million frequent flier miles and points in the last year.\u00a0 <strong>This site is dedicated to helping you acquire millions of frequent flier miles too.<\/strong> We want you to take free trips with your spouses or your families.<\/p>\n<p>We will teach you about credit, points, airlines, and so much more.\u00a0 Our goal is to help you to become a professional frequent flier.\u00a0 We want the TSA officials at your local airport to know your name.\u00a0 We want you to put more pins in the map of the places that you&#8217;ve gone, and we want you to do it without having to pay.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously there is a potential for us to make money along the way as well.\u00a0 Whenever possible we ask you to use the links that we provide.\u00a0 This will ensure that you will continue to get great service and feedback.\u00a0 We will always attempt to answer your questions and research things we don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 Drop us a line and we will be here to help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/track.linkoffers.net\/a.aspx?foid=2865931&amp;fot=9999&amp;foc=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/content.linkoffers.net\/SharedImages\/Products\/163454\/523591.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s be honest, I wasn&#8217;t born with the knowledge that I&#8217;ve obtained about being a Frequent Flier Mile professional.\u00a0 In fact, I need to make a confession.\u00a0 At one point I even allowed my AAdvantage Miles to expire.\u00a0 I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/?p=639\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[555,595,11,16],"tags":[114,149,150],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DhXV-aj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwanderlusting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}