The Frequent Flyer Miles Blog

United Airlines has temporarily reduced the number of miles required for award travel on certain shorter flights. From now until December 14th, 2007, only 15,000 miles are required to purchase an award ticket between “qualifying markets”.

View the details of this promotion here.

American Airlines recently launched a promotion to waive the transaction fee for purchases of miles through their buy AA miles program. For those who are thinking about this alternative to acquiring miles, we’ve put together a comparison chart of the costs associated with buying miles from each of the major frequent flyer programs.