| Show H6 t Park showcases creatures of the desert Continued from -- t 1 or AA( 4iiio F DiL4 i ' - r - : ' 0 1 1 I'P'"avoi t C ' - I - 111114 ' 4 t - 4- r14 ' 1- -PI: A 7t It' 04 it 1 -- - Ai-ultr- - 1004- kt-50 4 VP : - : 4 t-- - le P- - A - t - po r It a - ' - - vl 44 1 I f -- - i rja 07"genk-6- ' I d - tc -- qb A:-- - iii - i-t- '1 :: : t- ' '''' jea ':- 4- - - 4 -- 1- - 1 - ::i ioNwt 1 1 II- 4101) - di - b 4 - - ' tktt- - '"!: rww ' i- ' - -- - 6 194-- f - - lir die‘re ar'' - 11'W ' ' t:41764" '- 1 ' 1 - '4111ktiti10 I ---1:r- — 854- - La Quinta Hotel (800) 1'271 You Go IF The Living Desert open Paha in vacationing dai- ly from 9 am-- 5 pm Septem15 Adults $6 seber niors 62 & over $525 ages 3- 15 $3 (619) 346-569- 4 For further inforznation about about Desert Adventures Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau (8001 The Westin Mivtion Hills Resort (619) 3465694 The Ritz Carlton (800) 241- 3333 Right now for example you can get $100 off a Delta Air Lines ticket by shopping at Stop and Shop in New England and New York All you need is $100 in grrocery receipts and to do your shopping by Jan 31 Similar deals are being offered in other parts of the country Or maybe you'd like to save $150 on American Just buy some hair-car-e products from St Ives The details are on the label Maybe you'd like to save up to $200 off a United flight book Just buy a travel-discou- con- tact Morgan Levine 611 S Palm Canyon Drive Suite 7445 Palm Springs CA 92264 (619) 8646530 Jeep tours start at $29 per person helicopters The cool mountain air and the valley view from the top will take your breath away In winter the park offers siding In summer you can rfcle a mule on a naturalist-le-d overview of mountain flora and fauna There are miles of haling trails a restaurant and picnic and camping sites Palm Springs enjoys pleasantly mild winters but heats up in April By' May the sun is sizzling e temperatures extend until November though nights cross-count- Bake-hous- are cool If the heat gets you down take a thrilling ride on the Palm Springs San JacinTramway to 8516-foto National Park The cable tramway was built in the early 1960s with the aid of ot 4' 11'W'ilft CASINO CARAVANS WENDOVER'S TRIPLE CROWN NEST eusEs ersi oksiots Expenence PirscI)11'zect Seranw ' Vancouver to Anchorage Spectacular! Book at our crude sale Feb 2 & -10 for super discounts & bonuses! Free Disown Alaska" film shoeing 7:00 pm 'Don't miss this cruise' i '11111111111AVVEGASIMOMM— GRAN IMGM Owl cry war 4 tVir 27 Agri ??' Way 3t ORIENT EXPERIENCE 16 Enchanting Days Escorted by Brian Judd May Visit & empetence Hong Kong Bangkok Thailand Singapore Seoul & Korea & Kyoto Japan ‘Cpiete sightseeing A deluxe tour madapa option) FosetTuktirtg culture gmat shopping KW S17 9 triple-milea- miles wiping them off the books on Dec 31 of the third year after the year in which those miles were earned DOD Vouchers expire United free-tick- so-call- ed ar quent flier Take the leisure traveler who makes one round-tri- p flight to Florida every winter to visit the folks If that persons FT miles never expire he or she ultimPtely will earn a free flight — even though it may take a decade to accumulate the requisite mileage By limiting the shelf life of IF American: AAdvantage mileage expires at end of third year after year in which it was earned service center 8004382- 8880 Z Continental: OnePass no expiration for accumulated mileage service center Delta: Frequent flyer no expiration Northwest: WorldPerks 713-952-16-30 111 mileage the airlines have moved to reward loyal customers who fly with them on a regular basis At the same time mileage expiration provides a bit of incentive for the flier to take an additional Right or two to reach the threshold before the mileage already accumulated begins to expire Of the major domestic airlines only American Airlines sets an expiration date for accumulated less-freque- 800-323-23- 111 fly-Wri-te ticket vouchers expire three years from date of issue 6 800-435-9- II TWA: Frequent Flight nt free-flig- ge et Fly-Writ- es ce long-distan- Air- lines and Northwest Airlines operate a bit differently When a member of their IF programs reaches the 20000-mil- e plateau the airlines issue vouchers (called Awardaeques by Northby United west) that can be exchanged for a free flight In both instances those vouchers expire three years from the date of issue Where do you stand! Many leisure travelers don't really know Most FT programs issue statements showing accumulated mileage only after you've has received credit for a recent flight if there is no activity in your account youll receive no statement Or perhaps you were issued ticket vouchers some time ago and filed them away for future use and now have no idea where they are Its easy to bring yourself up to date by simply calling your FT program's service center and asking for a statement Here is a list of the FT programs of the major domestic carriers including the name of the program mileageaward expiration dates if any and the telephone numbers of the programs' service centers phone calls and charges on credit cards issued jointly by the programs and partner banks — the affinity cards All of those add millions of miles to IT accounts — but without the airlines ever selling a ticker So in July 1989 United Airlines unilaterally decided to imcycle of expirapose a three-yetion for its mileage credits and awards American and several other airlines quickly followed suit to as Petersen termed it -"reduce this ballooning liabilityBut the other reason for placing time limits on accumulated mileage and awards was to restore the original intent of FF programs — to reward the truly frequent flier If mileage and awards have no expiration date then the "infrequent" flier is as much a beneficiary of the programs as the fre- but in 1988 the deals brought the programs into their own" he said "People rushed to join the programs then took all kinds of Eights to anywhere just to get the 1981 RACE GPEATTS1 1 Ca ST Tear Wee Sick Wcov-F1-4 COIN Back SIL Sok Eftry ire MEE END AOmos 4 war4 6- cruises stays miles United on Aug 1 and American on Feb 1 1995) Even discounting all the miles in those fallow accounts the industry is according to Petersen still looking at more than a trillion miles in credits that can be exchanged for free rights Pe'tersen says the airlines themselves are to blame for the buildup of a lot of those miles Frequent-flier programs began in alisittAtor: FOUR DCanNG VACATION TOUR VALUES: 880-123- 4 nt DOD free-flig- ht 1:00e74'11 SAVE ON o travel-discot- of !rule "And look at Delta" Petersen added "Untl last January they gave every new bonus just member a 5000-mil- e for joining the program Now Delta has 15 million members So you can see that all those free miles add up to billions of miles-- Finally there are all the "partnering- plans that the FT programs instituted — offering mileage credits for car rentals hotel requirement to 25000 Salt Generiere Rattles tires in Lake City 01011--0111 ry don't advertise but offer through various coupon offers His publication also includes ideas Subother money-savin- g scribers also are enrolled in clubs to save on cruises and hotels Subscriptions are 58 a year for more information call (800) 6iZtOnt4 frequent-flier-relate- under nearby rocks money-sa- bonuses" e triple-mileag- m For further information Springs contact the Palm thats what That's the number of miles Randy Petersen — editor of the monthly newsletter Inside Byer and of the comprehensive Official calFrequent Flyer Guidebook culated had been accumulated in IT accounts at the end of 1993 Petersen a recognized expert with an encyclopedic knowledge of frequent-flie- r programs readily admits that a huge chunk of that stored-u- p mileage is sitting in hundreds of thousands of accounts that are inactive It is milememage earned by bers who are extremely infrequent fliers and who never will earn enough additional miles to qnIlify for a free flight Exactly bow much of the total outstanding --mileage falls into that About 400 billion category! miles" Petersen said during a recent phone interview from Colorado Springs Colo where he directs the operations of eight d companies When the airlines calculate the liability the outstanding miles represent he said they don't include any accounts with fewer than 20000 miles the 'minimum mileage required to earn a free flight in most IT programs (United and American announced last month they will increase the '''' buy an Entertainment discount travel book Call (800) 445 4137 for details These and many more ideas are published ving monthly in a magazine Best Fares Publisher Tom Parsons is ahvays on the lookout for these great fares the airlines one is coming S what do you do! Look for the hidden deals Yes triMorc Try 15 trillion Yes you read that right — ' sale The problem is that no one knows when and if 00 -' ' 513-600- Everyone is looking for an air-far- e deals air-far- e 0 for $1995 Call (800) for details How about a MO discotmt off a Continental flight? Jost GLCEK BC6TON miles would be erased from my account —if I hadn't cashed them in for a free trip or a flight upgrade or some other award Use "em or lose 'em is the motto of this FT program And it is not alone While several programs have no expiration on accumulated mileage three major US carriers —American Northwest and United Airlines — sweep unused mileage or awards off the books after three years And they do so for a couple of reasons First they want to get rid of the liability those miles represent Second they want to restore the meAnirg of -- frequent flier- Let's look at the first reason first Do you have any idea how many unused miles are sitting around in ET accounts out there! - - - '- -1 b - ALASKA CRUISE on CROWN PRINCESS July - - - :4 t I - ! Z :t- '''' - " it? ‘! dpi 4- -- - - - - Horseback riding haing picnicking are favorite activities of visitors to Indian Canyons an oasis not far from heart of Palm Springs )'1- 30-- A A0 ‘r Digging out those hidden The most recent statement from one of my frequent-flie- r programs informed me that by year's end several thousand t - ki113 -- t - e I- A - -- Ir- ' Ail it i' 'rCnett'l " ' og te SW:titat:" 641 A ":41--ef: 41: Her - 9 6 e- 6 414 - v' k--41 p '''gkIr '' 4- latlit 2:- 1 it y - -- s towf-- f' y1 " Ati1004711011101"' - 744V II:2" i 1 If"' ' e set- - Ci Vf - - e'r if I Ir 11 i a 2 I '4) MIXT! tick-tic- k No this is not the start of -- 60 Minute- s- That sound you bear is time running out on my — and miles your — frequent-flie- r 1 ar L 617 1 t I i ! 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