Originally Posted by
deant
I know I am showing my age, but I remember one TWA award where you bought one discount Y ticket from the US to Europe and got upgraded to F and received a second F ticket. Total mileage required - 50K. On top of that, you got triple miles for the paid ticket. Try getting a deal like that today.
As craz said, the value of the FF miles has been going down for the last 30 years.
Yeah, well TWA's also outa business...
Times change, you've gotta adapt and move on.
I, and many, many others on this board have foreseen the end of the rainbow on this mileage thing.
I kinda gave up about 3 yrs ago, when encountering way too much trouble trying
to book an AA flight to HNL, 1st class.
You'd think I was asking for the moon.
So, down to exactly -one- mile left in my Delta account, not much in AA.
Cash all the way for me, unless I do enuf flying to rack up the miles quick,
in which case I'll burn through 'em even quicker.