Originally Posted by
uszkanni
Let's see what we have here:
- You say that overly generous FF programs should be curtailed except for the very best pax.
- At 25K miles, you are at best a modest traveller. Certainly not one of the "very best" (by your definition).
- You complain about not being able to count on getting good reward tickets.
What do I think?
- By your criteria, you don't deserve ready access to award tickets.
- Flying is infinitely more pleasureable now that smoking has been banned in airplanes and most terminal areas.
- I'm just glad that Richard Reed tried to hide explosives in his shoes and not in a suppository.
I guess I'm in the second camp of active FF program members - the frequent (and heavy) user of credit cards (don't the airlines make money by selling miles to credit card companies?). I think the highest charges we ever racked up were when my late FIL was in a nursing home - and we paid his nursing home bills through a credit card (nursing home for a year = about 3 trips around the world).
Perhaps the inflation in the miles required for award travel isn't being caused by people like me - or the real FFs - but by all the promos that are around these days - promos that don't reward loyalty to an airline - or a credit card company.
FWIW - it's a real bi*** for my husband and I to go through security - because he needs a big leg brace to walk. But I think we have the routine down pat now. Robyn