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All of the major airlines including United, American, Continental, US Airways, Delta and Southwest have dining programs where you earn frequent flier miles each time you dine out at restaurants within their network.  You can find the restaurants in your area by entering your zip code on their web page.  The restaurants are all the same from airline to airline.  You typically earn 1 mile for every $1 spent with occasional double points promotions.  Sometimes the program will offer you bonus miles if you take a quick survey after dining at one of the restaurants.  Periodically airline dining programs offer a 1,000 point bonus for signing up and dining out at one of the restaurants in the network.  United Airlines is currently offering one of those 1,000 points bonuses right now by signing up and spending $50 at one of their restaurants.  You must register before December 31, 2011 and visit one of the restaurants within 30 days.  When you register with this or any other program you register your credit and debit cards that you may use when dining out.  When you dine out and use one of those credit cards their system detects that you should earn miles for dollars spent.   Want the quick 1,000 miles plus future miles?  Click here to sign up.

Here are links to the other airline dining programs:

Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Dining Partners

American Airlines AAdvantage Dining

Continental Airlines OnePass Dining by Rewards Network

Delta SkyMiles Dining

Southwest Rapid Rewards Dining

US Airways Dining Dividend Miles