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InsideFlyer June 2009	Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks In 1981, AAdvantage invented the modern day mileage-based frequent flyer program. In 2009, AAdvantage has invented the modern day model of award redemption flexibility.
InsideFlyer October 2005	Consumer Reports Validates Award Availability A recent issue of Consumer Reports reports that, after some 300 telephone calls to various frequent flyer programs, nearly 93 percent of the time they were able to secure an award.
InsideFlyer August 2004	Perception/Reality People complain about the difficulty of redeeming frequent flier awards. We decided to put the perception to a test by actually calling the airlines and trying to book awards.
InsideFlyer February 2009	AAdvantage Vacations AAvacations.com now has a feature that shows the price of your vacation in AAdvantage miles and dollars while you search the site so that you can pay online with miles and a credit card.
InsideFlyer April 2007	How Best to Redeem Your Awards The current buzz word for award redemption is calendaring.
InsideFlyer February 2009	Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks A look at the future of award redemptions, plus a cautionary tale.
InsideFlyer September 2012	Never Say Never Last month, American AAdvantage announced that miles earned prior to July 1, 1989, known as "Miles with No Expiration" will automatically be converted on Nov. 1 to "Miles Subject to Expiration" and will indeed expire if you don't earn or redeem miles at least once every 18 months.
InsideFlyer February 2006	Winning The Battle - Award Redemption in 2006 With most airline flights full of paying passengers, it might come as a surprise that there's hope that you, too, can really get the award you want. But it's not always an easy fight.
InsideFlyer October 2005	Broken Promises How to cope when your frequent flyer program changes the rules.
InsideFlyer April 2009	Award Patrol 2009 Is the perception that it's constantly getting more difficult to claim an award flight true?
InsideFlyer October 2014	Ethics of a Mile Do you own your frequent flyer miles, or does the airline own the miles in your account? If you earn the miles, do you have the right to dispose of them as you see fit?
InsideFlyer October 2012	Delta Award Changes Delta broke one of the cardinal sins of the frequent flyer world when it published a new award chart on Sept. 1, 2012 without notifying members.
InsideFlyer December 2013	Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks By and large, I have no strong feelings about United's recent changes. Do I declare it's a major devaluation? Not really, it just means it will likely be more difficult for me to get those awards based on the number of miles I am willing to fork over for a redemption.
InsideFlyer October 2005	America West, US Airways Merge Programs Starting this month, members of US Airways' Dividend Miles and America West's FlightFund can earn and redeem miles throughout both airlines' routes.
InsideFlyer November 2008	Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks: The Credit Crisis Thoughts on the credit crunch and its impact on earning miles with credit cards.
InsideFlyer December 2009	Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks There are some things, some bad, some strange and some that just don't add up, about upcoming changes to US Airways' award chart.
InsideFlyer December 2010	AA.com Car and Hotel Awards American AAdvantage members can now redeem miles or a combination of miles and cash for car and hotel awards.
InsideFlyer October 2005	Delta to Merge "Grandfathered" Miles with Newer Ones Delta Air Lines is telling longtime customers that its oldest frequent flyer program is going away next year, but its points will still be usable. Member reaction has been mixed.
InsideFlyer December 2007	Continental Shift Continental Airlines announces changes to its OnePass frequent flyer program.
InsideFlyer September 2014	InsideEdition International As of Oct. 15, 2014, Lifemiles is changing the mileage redemption for Avianca and Star Alliance member airlines.
InsideFlyer February 2013	Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks It's too close to call regarding the potential merger between American AAdvantage and US Airways Dividend Miles -- news that seems destined to be announced before the next issue of this magazine -- and news that I haven't been able to worm out of even my best sources at these two airlines.
InsideFlyer March 2006	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Frequent Flyers Whether you're a million-miler or a new mileage consumer, practicing these habits will help you survive and thrive in today's world of miles and points.
InsideFlyer January 2009	SkyTeam Upgrades SkyTeam recently launched an upgrade program that allows frequent flyer program members to use their miles to upgrade to business class when flying on any of the 10 SkyTeam member airlines.
InsideFlyer October 2007	The (Unlawful) Sale of Awards Thousands, if not millions, of frequent flyers have wondered, "Why can't I do with my frequent flyer miles as I wish? They are my miles, after all." And on several occasions they have found themselves making their case in court.
InsideFlyer October 2010	AA, BA and IB It won't be long before American AAdvantage members will finally be able to earn and redeem miles on transatlantic British Airways flights.
The Motley Fool February 3, 2005 Lawrence Meyers	Why I Won't Invest in Airlines Oil prices, poor management, terrorism -- what's not to hate about the airline industry? Investors have so many other places to put their money. Why put it in a doomed industry?
InsideFlyer January 2010 Gary Leff	Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks A frequent flyer shares his mileage redemption wish list for 2010.
InsideFlyer November 2007	To Hoard or Not to Hoard Is hoarding miles and points as popular as it used to be? Or has the horde of hoarders disappeared?
InsideFlyer June 2006	AAdvantage Trivia Interesting facts about American Airlines' awards program.
InsideFlyer March 2009	10 New FFP Commandments There's bold new thinking behind the best ways to get the most out of your frequent flyer miles these days.
InsideFlyer August 2005	AAdvantage Allows Members to Reactivate Expired Miles Through Dec. 31, and for a fee, AAdvantage members can reactivate some or all of their expired miles. With AAdvantage's Short Hop awards redeemable at only 15,000 miles, it may be a good deal.
InsideFlyer April 2013	Cover Story US Airways and American Airlines announced their upcoming consolidation with the combined airline being called American Airlines. Members of American AAdvantage and US Airways Dividend Miles have already started getting some details about what to expect from the new AAdvantage program.
InsideFlyer January 2007	Inspector General Weighs in on FFPs A follow-up review of frequent flyer programs reveals that little progress has been made in commitment to customer service.
InsideFlyer May 2013	Awards by the Numbers We looked at the airlines annual 10-K reports to see how many awards were redeemed by frequent flyer members and which airlines have higher percentages of flyers on award tickets.
InsideFlyer February 2013	US Airways Lufthansa Awards US Airways Dividend Miles has unofficially denied members the ability to redeem miles for first class flights on Lufthansa for years. And now, the program has officially documented this policy.
InsideFlyer April 2010	Flight Awards in 2009 The airlines have filed their 10-K reports for 2009 and overall, they report that fewer flight awards were redeemed by members in 2009 than in 2008.
InsideFlyer January 2015	Delta SkyMiles Eliminates Stopovers Delta recently announced as part of the new SkyMiles program, stopovers are no longer allowed on award travel booked on or after Jan. 1, 2015
InsideFlyer February 2006	Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks This month begins and ends the voting period for the 18th annual Freddie Awards, a determination of the best frequent traveler loyalty programs in the industry.
InsideFlyer June 2009	AAdvantage Flex American AAdvantage has announced new options when redeeming miles for flight awards.
InsideFlyer April 2014	Delta Releases New Award Chart Charts don't make happy members, redemption success stories do. Delta, your clock has just started, albeit seven months early.
InsideFlyer March 2007	Expiration Policies A summary of the expiration policies from the most popular frequent flyer programs.
InsideFlyer October 2004	Riding Out the Storm Several strategies that will help you protect your frequent flyer miles against bankruptcies, buyouts and blowhards.
InsideFlyer April 2012	10-K Award Statistics We compiled this information from the SEC's EDGAR database for 2011 to give you an idea of how many award flights were booked last year.
InsideFlyer September 2006	A Peek into Award Redemption Is award availability is getting better or worse? We re-traveled the same sampling of routes travelled two years ago to find out.
InsideFlyer March 2009	Flying Blue Changes In a move that sets the program apart from others, Flying Blue members who are not elite members cannot redeem their miles for a first class seat regardless of how many miles they have in their account.
InsideFlyer January 2009	60 Seconds with Yapta.com's CEO, Tom Romary Tom Romary, CEO, answers a few questions about Yapta's new frequent flyer award seat alert service, and what changes site users can expect to see in the future.
InsideFlyer May 2014	Randy Petersen's Opening Remarks Before I explore a recent announcement for frequent flyers, let me first frame it with a confusing scenario. Yes, this is about the American/US Airways merger.
InsideFlyer June 2009	Buy AAdvantage Miles Get Bonus Through June 30, 2009, members of American AAdvantage who purchase AAdvantage miles through specific miles programs will get 30 percent more miles.
InsideFlyer July 2005	Hidden Assets? A look at what value frequent flyer programs have as hidden airline assets, and what going public might mean to members.
InsideFlyer September 2012	JAL Awards For JAL flight awards issued from Oct. 1, 2012, new rules will be implemented for awards with itineraries including JAL and one other partner.