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Travel Forum / Travel Types / Air Travel / August 2006Multiple Frequent Flier accounts OK or not?
Is it possible for one person to have multiple frequent flier accounts at the same airline? Is it "legal" at major airlines? My company pays for a lot of my travel and feels that the miles earned that way should be used to purchase business travel either for myself or even others. We have done this sort of informally but I can see the desirability of separating the miles I get from my personal and company-paid travels, if it would be legal to maintain two accounts. :>Is it possible for one person to have multiple frequent flier accounts :>at the same airline? Is it "legal" at major airlines? :>My company pays for a lot of my travel and feels that the miles earned :>that way should be used to purchase business travel either for myself :>or even others. Makes sense to me. :>We have done this sort of informally but I can see the desirability of :>separating the miles I get from my personal and company-paid travels, :>if it would be legal to maintain two accounts. Can't see why not. 100K miles is worth much more than 2*50K. But realize that you might not get the elite-1/2/3 status if you split your miles.  SignatureBinyamin Dissen <bdissen@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. > :>Is it possible for one person to have multiple frequent flier accounts > :>at the same airline? Is it "legal" at major airlines? [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > But realize that you might not get the elite-1/2/3 status if you split your > miles. Which of course defeats the primary purpose of FF miles - better treatment. > We have done this sort of informally but I can see the desirability of > separating the miles I get from my personal and company-paid travels, > if it would be legal to maintain two accounts. Desirable ? No. But if your "corporate" FF plan has your business address and is managed by your employer, then you are perfectly entitled to have your own personal account with your home business address. The advantage of this is that your own personal travels will not benefit your employer or some co-workers. If you do enough business travel on the business account to give you status, you will be able to make use of that status for priority check-in etc, but you may have problems doing upgrades if your reservation is set to credit your personal account and you want to debit your business account to get an upgrade. But when you leave your job, you get to keep your points with you. > Is it possible for one person to have multiple frequent flier accounts > at the same airline? Is it "legal" at major airlines? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > separating the miles I get from my personal and company-paid travels, > if it would be legal to maintain two accounts. It's legal and common. Many government agencies demand that the miles get used for business purposes. I suppose some companies see the logic in doing the same. Many big companies view the miles as a perk for the Frequent Flyer to keep for himself. The IRS is deciding if there are tax implications. Just be careful if you do this not to put business miles into your personal account. The company could view that as theft. : It's legal and common. : ... Great, now do I have to use different contact info in two accts or can they really be the same: same email, same phone, same address, just different account number? (It's just convenient that way.) : : It's legal and common. : : ... : : Great, now do I have to use different contact info in two accts or can : they really be the same: same email, same phone, same address, just : different account number? (It's just convenient that way.) I am no expert but I just found this in AAdvantage FAQ (which is different from aa.com FAQ)- "Q: If I have more than one AAdvantage account, can I transfer the balances to just one account? A: You may request to combine your accounts by phone if your name and address are identical on each account..." So it seems OK to have 2 accts with the same contact info. > : It's legal and common. > : ... > > Great, now do I have to use different contact info in two accts or can > they really be the same: same email, same phone, same address, just > different account number? (It's just convenient that way.) I would put the work one under a work address to avoid confusion. |
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