Chasing the airline miles

Three years ago when we went to Australia, we flew United from San Francisco to Sydney. Good flights, good service, and we garnered the appropriate airline miles. Since then we've not had occasion to fly United and don't foresee doing so in the near future. So our airline miles have sat there, bringing us monthly updates and lots of offers to get special credit cards. Then United changed its policy of cashing in those miles and they would expire at the end of this month.

We could put more cash down to move the miles around and still have our accounts open. We've debated this for six months. Then, something on a newscast must have made it past my mental block of the-news-is-on-drone because I had an epiphany: donate those miles.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation needs miles for all sorts of good giving to children. As of last night, with one phone call, they have ours.

So, thank you, United Airlines, for participating in their program. And for all of you out there with scattered airline miles about to expire, well, follow the link above.