MilesBuzz! - "The New Way to Earn Free Travel"?

SmartMoney on why it might make sense to dump your airline credit card in favor of a hotel rewards card. There's a hotel program comparison table on page 2.

Article: http://www.smartmoney.com/consumer/index.cfm?story=20061129

(If this has been posted on FT before, apologies - I did use the lousy search function...)

Now that I have the Starwood business amex, I'm shifting all my business charges from my UA business card to it (except for booking UA flights online because I get EQMs). I get plenty of miles from traveling and am valuing hotel points more. Now if only Hilton would come out with a business card since that's my chain of choice....

Nothing to new to the savvy FTer, but interesting nonetheless (and another sucker buys the SPG "no blackouts" BS). Although they are going to need to update their article/chart in a few weeks when the SPG devaluation goes into effect.

I am surprised how few have caught on to the Thank You Network options.

See my posts in this thread for why I think Thank You Point cards blow the SPG Amex away. (http://flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=632580)

wow, lots of inaccuracies in their chart: hhonors opp level is 7500 not 10000, marriott rewards goes up to cat 7 not cat 6, etc.