Some airline frequent flyer programs offer household accounts, whereby you can pool the points that several people earn, in order to unlock award redemptions more quickly. This sounds exciting, but there are always at least some restrictions.
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Does the transfer of points for $15 feature actually work though? I've tried it multiple times over many months to consolidate my parents' otherwise orphaned Flying Club miles and they always claim there is a system error and to try again later.
suggested idea for a future post, what FFPs allow pooling and/or low cost consolidation of points?
Isn't this (existing points balances not automatically joining the household account) exactly the same how the Emirates program works?
Ben, that kid strategy is amazing. I'll be completely honest -- I assumed you had to be maybe age 12 or so to qualify for miles programs. Shows what I know.
Thanks in advance!
I tried to create a Household account by linking my wife's Flying Club account. Wouldn't let me - no idea why . . . .
Keep in mind also that, at least with AX MR, if there is an additional registered cardholder AX will manually credit miles to the non-primary cardholders Virgin Atlantic account with no fee. Just did this to take advantage of the AX 40% transfer bonus with MR points from my wife. Not sure if that is the case with non-primary cardholders of other cards.