Comment # 297 (chosen randomly via random.org), and Adam. Adam advances to the final round, and will be one of the 20 entries into the final drawing for the trip for 2 to Australia’s Gold Coast courtesy of Boardingarea.com and the American Express Premier Rewards Gold Card. Adam offers the following advice:
When redeeming remember to use partner award travel options. Several times they will not be displayed online and the agent will not list them over the phone. Make sure you know the alliance and non alliance airline partners and try to create your own itinerary using a travel site. Once you have an itinerary call the airline and ask the agent for availability on those flights you’ve selected. Have several options in terms of airlines, dates, and flight times. For earning miles use your credit card for everything. I use my SPG Amex card for something as small as a 99cent purchase. The SPG Amex actually allows you to earn 1.25 miles per dollar as for every 20000 points transferred to an airline you received a 5,000 bonus.
No way! Not sure if this was built into the T&Cs of the sweepstakes or not–maybe Adam is just a REALLY lucky guy, but he was also the random winner selected on the “Flight Diversions” blog!
Lucky Adam, bummer for the rest of us 🙁
With 387 posts to this blog, and 392 posts to Flight Diversions, the chance of this happening, I believe, was 1 in 151,000. (392×387 = ~151,000)!!!