How To Fly For Free: Practical Tips The Airlines Don't Want You To Know
Scott Keyes
Language: English
Pages: 66
ISBN: B009QSNKL8
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
How To Fly For Free gives you hyper-practical tips on how to travel anywhere in the world without breaking the bank. You’ll learn how to quickly rack up hundreds of thousands of frequent flyer miles. (These tips helped me earn over 1.4 million points since 2010.) You’ll also learn how to:
- Earn elite status in just one flight
- Bring along a companion anywhere you fly — free — for two years
- Add extra cities to your trip
- Get bumped
- And more
Plenty of books promise to teach you how to get the cheapest airfare possible with 350 pages worth of useless tips like “book your flights on Tuesdays at 1pm” or “try to fly the same carrier each time.” This isn’t that book. How To Fly For Free is a practical, step-by-step guide that will let you avoid paying thousands for airfare.Words: 13,132
Pages: 56
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Section 1: How to Get Free Flights
1) The Fastest Way To Get Free Flights
2) How Your Credit Score Works
3) Step-By-Step Guides For Three Types Of Travelers
4) How To Get Bumped
5) Earning Elite Status In One Roundtrip Flight
6) Complaints = Miles
7) Bring A Companion For Free
Section 2: How to Use Your Miles
8) Spending Points Wisely
9) How To Fly To Additional Cities For Free
10) Using Partner Airlines To Fly Anywhere In The World
Section 3: Planning a Trip From Start to Finish
11) How To Plan A Trip, Step-By-Step
12) Finding Cheap Flights
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About the author: Scott Keyes is a travel expert who has earned 1.4 million points in the past two years. He personally travels around 100,000 miles per year. Though once skeptical about the usefulness of frequent flyer miles, free trips to places like Norway, Dominican Republic, and the Galapagos Islands put his fears to rest.
Contents Introduction SECTION 1: HOW TO GET FREE FLIGHTS 1) The Fastest Way To Get Free Flights 2) How Your Credit Score Works 3) Step-By-Step Guides For Three Types Of Travelers 4) How To Get Bumped 5) Earning Elite Status In One Roundtrip Flight 6) Complaints = Miles 7) Bring A Companion For Free SECTION 2: HOW TO USE YOUR MILES 8) Spending Points Wisely 9) How To Fly To Additional Cities For Free 10) Using Partner Airlines To Fly Anywhere In The World SECTION 3: PLANNING A
If you aren’t accepted right away, call the reconsideration line after a few days and use the scripts provided in Chapter 1 Confirm with agent when you activate your card what the bonus and spending threshold is Complete spend threshold — see Chapter 1 for tips on meeting spending thresholds — tracking progress through your credit card’s online account The next day, call your credit card company and ask them to expedite the points into your account. It usually takes a few weeks to show up, but
be selling a thing or two on eBay. Any of these are plausible reasons for applying (and yes, I’ve used all of them — successfully — when various customer service agents asked what I needed a business card for). You don’t need to have an incorporated business to be conducting business activities. The business card application differs slightly from one for a personal card. Namely, they ask for the legal name of your business, number of years in business, number of employees, annual revenue,
as teaching someone to play soccer by instructing them to “kick the ball towards the goal.” Most people don’t want to take the time and effort to become an expert. They just want to take an awesome vacation for free! That’s why I wrote How To Fly For Free: to give you hyper-practical tips on how to travel for free. I don’t do this for a living. I have a full-time job that requires some travel. I was skeptical of frequent flyer miles initially; it felt like a scam. Years
reason to do so (like an annual fee they won’t waive). If you can’t get your annual fee waived, ask to be downgraded to a no-fee card rather than closing the account entirely. Bide your time. Your credit score moves slowly, but if you follow these tips, it will increase significantly over time. Use free sites to keep an eye on your credit score. There are two I use — www.creditsesame.com and www.creditkarma.com — which are both free and easy to set up. WARNING: If you are in serious debt