Planning ahead for your FRONTIER Miles
Lifetime transfer options and steps to take now for Frontier Airlines miles
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While Frontier Airlines does allow post-death transfer of miles, lifetime planning gives the account holder more control over how miles are shared and used.
FRONTIER Miles Family Pooling lets members combine and share Miles. Section 12 of the Terms and Conditions states that a family account pool consists of one primary account holder plus up to eight pool contributors; Frontier's own Family Pooling page and help-center article describe the same feature more loosely as "a group of up to 8 people." The primary account holder (the member who starts the pool) must be a Frontier Airlines World Mastercard holder or hold any Elite tier status, controls the pool, can redeem Miles from the pooled balance without the contributors' permission, and may remove any person from the pool at any time. Pool contributors can be any Miles contributor -- Frontier states that friends, coworkers, roommates and family all qualify -- and Frontier advertises no minimums, maximums or hidden transaction fees on pool contributions. On cancellation of a pool, unused Miles balances return to the individual account holder who earned them; redemptions draw first-in/first-out across the combined pooled accounts. A member who leaves a pool enters a 90-day cooling-off period before joining or creating another. Pooling does not suspend expiration: expiration dates are still calculated on each contributor's own accrual history (except contributors under 18, who take the primary account holder's expiration date), and a contributor with no accrual activity inside the 12-month window has their Miles expire and leave the pool balance. Miles purchased or gifted through Frontier's partner Points.com can also be added to a pool.
How to protect your FRONTIER Miles
5 lifetime planning steps for your FRONTIER Miles:
Should you save your passwords for your family?
Some people store account passwords so a family member can sign in later. The practice has three practical limits:
- Two-factor authentication often blocks it. Most accounts require a second factor — a code sent to a phone, an authenticator app, a passkey, or a physical key. A saved password alone frequently does not grant access, and the recovery codes that would are easy to lose or let go stale.
- It usually conflicts with the platform's terms. Most operators prohibit account sharing and signing in as another person, including after a death. Stored credentials are not the operator's recognized access path, and using them can violate the terms of service.
- Operators provide other paths. Where an operator offers a designation tool — Apple's Legacy Contact, Google's Inactive Account Manager, a beneficiary designation — that mechanism grants access the operator recognizes. A password manager's own emergency-access or legacy feature passes credentials through a controlled process. Digital assets named in a will or trust give a fiduciary authority under each state's Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA).
Frequently asked questions
Family Pooling combines members' Miles into a shared balance. The Terms and Conditions describe a pool as one primary account holder plus up to eight pool contributors; Frontier's Family Pooling page describes it as a group of up to 8 people. The pool head must hold a Frontier Airlines World Mastercard or any Elite tier status, controls all redemptions without needing the contributors' permission, and may remove anyone from the pool at any time. Contributors do not have to be relatives, and Frontier advertises no minimums, maximums, or hidden transaction fees on contributions.
No. Expiration is still calculated on each contributor's own accrual history, except that contributors under 18 take the primary account holder's expiration date. A contributor with no accrual activity inside the twelve-month window has their Miles expire, and those Miles are no longer available to the pool or to the contributor individually.
Miles are non-transferable and may not be combined among members except through the routes the Terms name: Family Pooling, purchase or gifting through Frontier's partner Points.com, a mileage transfer supported by a court decree of FRONTIER Miles ownership in a domestic matter such as divorce or separation, and the death-of-member transfer. Selling, bartering, or otherwise exchanging Miles for value outside those channels is prohibited, those Miles are void, and Frontier states violators may be liable for damages and litigation costs.
Unused Miles balances return to the individual account holder who earned them, and the departing account enters a 90-day cooling-off period during which it may not rejoin a previous pool or join or create another. Because redemptions draw first-in/first-out across all combined pooled accounts, the balance that returns may differ from what was contributed.
Recording that a FRONTIER Miles account exists, alongside other accounts, gives a fiduciary the information needed to reach the operator through its official process.
FRONTIER Miles does not offer beneficiary designations, so there is no program-level mechanism for directing miles to a specific person at death.
Sources
Data sourced from Frontier Airlines primary sources (11 pages reviewed). How we research.
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