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Old Jun 12, 2011 | 8:36 am
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Originally Posted by LongviewTX
I have probably missed when airlines turned into non-profits and started thinking about your pleasurable experience more than they think about returns to their shareholders.

Whether you like it or not, but airlines are out there on the market place to make money and maximizing the inflow of miles into their FF programs while minimizing opportunities to redeem them feels like hell to you but feels like heaven to airlines' shareholders
feels like Delta. They started the inability to use miles at low awards.
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