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Mileage and Point Reward Status (July 2011)

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This is my monthly recap where I look at what reward programs we were able to add miles or points to over the previous period. Now that we are completely moved into our new home, and have a tenant for our old home, I can start concentrating on acquiring massive amounts of new miles. My main goal over the next couple months is to take advantage of a Continental Airlines credit card offer before they go away with the United merger. Hopefully there are some other nice inspiration credit card offers out there in the near future too so we can now take advantage of them. Another goal will be to try and start using some of these miles and points in some of our miscellaneous accounts that we do not plan on using towards a future Hawaii trip.

This monthly exercise also worked in my favor because I had to update our address on file for all of the accounts.

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The following is a brief summary of the things we have done in the past month to build up our accounts.

Delta SkyMiles– Audience Rewards trivia questions in all three of our accounts.

United Mileage Plus- No change.

Continental OnePass- My wife and I each have two accounts due to checking accounts opened a couple years ago. I have not been able to figure out why our total went up 1,000 miles this past month as I am not even showing any activity in any of the accounts.

US Airways Dividend Miles– Toolbar use and Audience Rewards trivia in both of our accounts.

American Airlines AAdvantage– The LAX promotion from several months ago finally posted to all of our accounts.

Hilton HHonors– No change.

Priority Club Rewards- MyCokeRewards had an excellent promotion to redeem points for Priority Club points. I picked up an extra 4,000 points.

Starwood Preferred Guest– This past month we decided to finally open a SPG account to take advantage of some free points promotions out there and see where the program can take us. We are hoping to grow our balance in this account, and thus why we are now tracking them.

This past month we also opened up Frontier accounts for each of us, and received some initial promotional miles; however, we are not tracking them yet because I am not sure how many miles we will really ever earn with them.

Note, we also have reward accounts with AirTran, Southwest, Choice Hotels, and Wyndham Rewards, but since we do not really use them, there is no point in including them in this list. I debated about including Southwest Airlines, since we do have some of the old credits from the previous Rapid Rewards program; however, after looking at what we would need to earn in the new point system to receive an award before they expire (old points still appear to expire), makes it unlikely that we will ever get anything out of the system.

Audience Rewards Update for Week of 7-30-11

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At the beginning of this past week, I was monitoring the questions for updates, and they were slim and far between. Then I got slammed with work, and did not get to monitor the questions, let alone really any deals this week. Here is the latest questions and answers for the various Audience Rewards questions this week.

US Airways Points Play Trivia

– Gregory Jbara made his musical Broadway debut in what show? Damn Yankees

– Who is currently playing Gomez in The Addams Family? Roger Rees

– How many theatres has the current revival of Chicago played on Broadway? 3

– True or False? Whoopi Goldberg is NOT a producer of Sister Act, The Musical. False

– What did famous librettist Abe Burrows die from? Alzeihmer’s Disease

– The plot of Follies is centered around what event? A reunion

Delta Points Play

– True or False? Memphis, The Musical has been filmed and shown in movie theatres. True

– What was the name of the woman who inspired the character Roxie Hart in Chicago? Beulah

– Which of the following plays did Lee Hall, librettist of Billy Elliot, write? The Pitmen Painters

– True or False? Sister Act, The Musical is not set in the same time period as the movie was. True

– The phrase “Get me Abe Burrows!” was rumored to have been said when what was needed, in honor of the How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying librettist. A script doctor

SPG Points Play

– Which of the following shows did NOT play at the Lunt Fontanne Theatre? Les Miserable

– True or False? The first revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying played in the same theatre space as the original. True

– Who was instrumental in altering Fosse’s original staging of the number “Razzle Dazzle” in Chicago? Jerry Orbach (Thanks John from the comments!)

– Carole Shelley, the original Grandma in Billy Elliot is from where? London, England

– True or False? Harold Prince was not the only director of the original Follies on Broadway. True