Originally Posted by
Evan!
fti is right. "Meaningless" and "no value" are subjective terms. I probably should have stopped at "Academic and only mildly interesting" and not continued with the rest.
Up In The Air made it seem like George Clooney had 10MM "lifetime miles", and we FT'ers know that isn't as exceptional as they portrayed. 10MM BIS miles is exceptional. (we learned at the DO that there are just 2 living 10MM fliers in the SkyMiles program).