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Frequent Flyer Miles Take You to Space?
An anonymous reader writes "Pan Am might be gone and there isn't a Hilton in space yet, but you will soon be able to use your frequent flyer miles to at least come close to the final frontier. This article on SpaceRef.com details a new Space Adventures and US Airways partnership, where US Airways dividend miles may be cashed in for Space Adventures programs, most notably their sub-orbital flights that are expected to begin by 2005. Cost: only 10,000,000 miles. More reasonable totals can get you a zero-g parabolic flight, or a Mach 2.5 flight on a MiG-25. Space Adventures is the outfit that's been arranging trips to the ISS. One small problem though, is that they don't actually have a sub-orbital craft yet."
Cost: only 10,000,000 miles.
That's 10 weeks on Necker Island for two people with Virgin Atlantic miles! I know what I'm saving up for...
Actually, I'm aiming for the 300,000 miles you need for a round-the-world trip, still got a long way to go tho'.
This is a bit of an OT sidenote but I wonder if they'll have an Admiral's Club in space. I was in the one at Dallas/Ft. Worth last April and loved it. It made me want to shell out the $400/year for a membership. I don't travel much though but when I do, it would be worth it!