Credit Cards

• There are plenty of credit cards available where you earn frequent flyer miles based on your purchases. Some of these credit cards will offer a large upfront bonus for frequent flyer miles after you make your first purchase with the card. Others will offer a bonus amount of miles each month you make a purchase for a certain number of months. Some cards will pay you a higher percentage of miles for certain purchases such as gas, grocery or hotel stays. Use caution with these as some come with an annual fee. Often the annual fee will be waived for the first year.
  
  

Shopping

• You can shop online through a particular airline's shopping portal to earn more frequent flyer miles. You can potentially earn miles for booking flights with partner airlines, renting cars, booking hotel rooms, dining at particular restaurants and making other purchases. What you can earn depends on what is available on the airline's shopping portal. If you don't know the portal for your particular airline, do an Internet search for your airline's name plus 'frequent flyer' and something should come up that links to its shopping site.
  
  

Book Online

• Sometimes you can earn bonus miles for booking your flight online. Check milemaven.com for the latest offers before booking your flight.
  
  

Be Consistent

• Do your best to book your flights with partner airlines whose frequent flyer programs are linked or that allow you to choose the program that you want to earn miles for.
  
  

Swag Bucks

• You can earn free airline miles free by using a search engine called swag bucks. When you make searches on this site, you randomly win swag bucks. You can also earn by shopping through its site, trading in old cell phones and searching for free swag codes each day. You can redeem your swag bucks for frequent flyer miles or other free stuff.
  
  

Keep an Eye Out

• Pay attention to ads you see and hear as sometimes, companies will offer frequent flyer miles as an incentive for signing up for their services. If you were going to sign up for their services anyway, it's a great way to get some frequent flyer miles.
  
  Some airlines will reward you with miles for signing up to receive their emails--check your program to see if this is an option for you.
  
  Chances to get frequent flyer miles are all around, and you don't even have to fly to accumulate them.