How to Trade Airline Miles for Free Magazine Subscriptions

Are you currently paying cash for your magazine and newspaper subscriptions? Many airlines offer the ability to trade your unused Frequent Flyer miles for subscriptions to magazines like the Economist, Barron's, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated, and The Wall Street Journal.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer
• Internet
• Frequent Flyer Account Numbers
• 10 Minutes

1. Find all of your frequent flyer accounts. These can be programs you signed up for one flight and have not touched again. Some magazines only require 400 miles so no account is too small!

2. Using your favorite search engine, search for "magazine for miles".

3. The first few results are the programs being offered. Right now they include Delta Sky Miles, American Airlines, Delta Sky Miles, and Northwest Workperks.

4. Click through to the airline milage program you have and want to trade your miles for magazines.

5. Review the magazines currently offered, make your selections and click continue, and if prompted login to your account

6. Fill out the required information and get your confirmation! You're done!

Tips & Warnings

• This is a great way to keep your airline miles from expiring.
• Northwest's program may merge into Delta's due to the merger
• Subscriptions take 6 - 12 weeks to begin to arrive
• The magazines and newspapers rotate frequently so if you see something you like do not delay.

Resources

• Mileage for Magazines Programs