Originally Posted by Uniter

My wife has a college reunion coming up soon in CLT - we live near IAD. Tickets, for some odd reason, are up in the high $300s for the weekend she needs to go.

"Let's use your miles!" she says.

Well, the economy has hit us like everyone else. Cash is tight. My miles are fairly plentiful, though that last trip to Europe in C has left me with only about 120k.

I check *A flights on US ... and all that's available is F!

My wife: "Oh, well, that's fine with me. Book it."

"But honey," I plead, "that's 50,000 miles. For the same price, I could book a first class ticket to the West Coast... or almost a free ticket in coach to Europe! Let's just spend the money ..."

But does she listen? Nope. So my wife will be sitting on a no-service US flight for 88 minutes in F for 50,000 miles. It's killing me just to think about it.

Thanks for letting me vent, FlyerTalkers. No one else would understand my pain.