If you fly, you have airline miles. You might have earned them from flying with a major airline or partner airline, from using a travel rewards credit card or by buying the miles.

Frequent flyer miles are like money, you shouldn’t waste them, lose them or forget about them. But, keeping track of your airline miles can be confusing at times, especially if you have miles from several airlines. The whole point of earning miles is that instead of using actual cash to pay for a flight, you could use your miles and save your cash to pay for things on your trip. This is why it’s helpful to know how many and where you airline miles are.

I found that the best way to keep track of most of my airline miles is by using Award Wallet. Award Wallet is a free service that keeps track of your flight schedules, frequent flyer miles, any certificates you have, points from hotel loyalty programs and basically any other travel loyalty program you might be earning points from.

My favorite feature is that it will send me an email alert whenever any of my miles are soon to expire because of inactivity.

How to Sign Up for an Award Wallet Account

Signing up for Award Wallet is free, but there is also a premium version that you can upgrade to that’s usually not free. However, it is free if you have the promo code which I have a limited amount of, so shoot me an email (susan@adriftanywhere.com) and I can give a code to you if I still have some available! New Users only: If you don’t have an Award Wallet account yet, and would like to use my referral link I would appreciate it because every time someone signs up using my link, I get more codes to give out to my readers!

Here’s what you can do with the free version of Award Wallet and Award Wallet Plus:

How to Begin Using Award Wallet

To begin using Award Wallet, start by clicking on ‘Add a New Program’ and finding the airline’s mileage program you want to keep register. You will need your mileage account number and password so that Award Wallet can track your account.

You can also keep track of your family member’s mileage account as well by selecting ‘Add New Person’.

It’s important to know when you airline miles are set to expire so that you can prevent it from happening!

Here are the airline mile expiration rules for most major US Airlines:

Alaska Airlines – 24 months of no earning or redeeming miles
American Airlines -18 months of no earning or redeeming miles
British Airways – 36 months of no earning or redeeming miles
Frontier Airlines -18 months of no earning miles
Southwest – 24 months of no earning or redeeming miles
United – 18 months of no earning or redeeming miles
US Airways -18 months of no earning or redeeming miles
Delta – Never Expire!

Other Uses of Award Wallet

By connecting your mileage account to you Award Wallet, you allow Award Wallet to not only alert you with flight notifications, but you can also sync your Google Calendar or iCal account so you can keep track of your flights and expiration deadlines on a calendar that’s convenient to use.

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