Frequent Flier Miles: Acruing and Redeeming

It’s possible to accrue frequent flier miles your with your AirTreks around-the-world or multi-stop ticket! All you need to do is give your Personal Travel Consultant your membership numbers before or after you finalize your reservation and they’ll send them to the appropriate airlines right away. It’s not possible to add your mileage numbers to your reservation after the flight has departed, so make sure to send us your numbers before your departure date.

Most of the airlines AirTreks uses to complete your itinerary belong to one of the three major airline alliances: Star Alliance, One World or Sky Team. If you have a mileage program membership it should accrue miles from any airline you use from its alliance. For example, any airline under the Star Alliance banner will allow you to accrue on your United account, and so forth through the difference alliances.

Be sure to let your agent know all your memberships so they can associate them with the proper flights in your itinerary. This will give you the greatest possible number of miles to accrue from your around the world ticket.

If you don’t have a membership you might want to get one before you leave. They’re free to sign up for and you can have simultaneous memberships on airlines in every alliance – they don’t care. So to maximize your miles, you might as well have them all. Go to the websites of the airlines you use most and sign up.

Unfortunately, AirTreks cannot purchase tickets using frequent flier miles. The only place you can do that is through the airline with which you have the membership. In other words, you can accrue miles on your United Airlines frequent flier membership from any Star Alliance partner but you can only purchase a United Airline ticket with those miles through United, not a travel agency or any kind of consolidator service.