Originally Posted by
FedUp2
Moreover, accumulating a lot of miles on any carrier, to spend slowly over time is a bad idea: Airlines are continuously trying to devalue the miles by increasing the mileage requirements and adding restrictions. Finally, IMO, accumulating miles on US carrier is a far better idea for the purpose of redemptions, rather than on Indian carriers.
+1 to the above..
Though I hv not checked out US Air FFP yet, I hv read abt it a lot on how easy its to accumulate miles there and redeem it on * alliance partners.. I believe many learned folks even buy US air miles just to redeem them on partner airlines and it turns out quite cheap..