Miles Donations Are Providing Flights For Afghan Refugees

The group Miles4Migrants is coordinating the effort with the help of major airlines to use donated miles and credit card points to help refugees.

A campaign that began with ordinary people donating frequent-flyer miles has raised enough in two months to provide 40,000 flights for refugees from Afghanistan, and organizers and the White House are looking to nearly double that figure.

About 3,200 flights with donated miles have already carried Afghans from temporary housing at military bases in the U.S. to new homes around the United States, according to organizers.

Corporations have made half of the contributions so far, mostly in tickets donated by airlines.