Clearly, you can never start collecting airline miles too young. Lufthansa's Miles&More loyalty scheme has a junior version, JetFriends, which provides children with their own club card and allows them to earn air miles every time they fly.

A child gets 2,000 free miles just for registering. Older children can also have their own email address for chatting with other members of JetFriends worldwide - a kind of contemporary version of the old pen pal idea.

Things have got even better now as children earn 1,000 miles every time they stay in a Kids' Room at a Swissotel property, which are located all over the world. These specially designed rooms come with cheerful decor, DVDs, colouring pads, pens and cuddly toys and adjoin the more conventional parents' room.

Visit www.swissotel.com or www.jetfriends.com for details.

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