Originally Posted by
uwbrother
Exactly, you wouldn't pay $36,000 roundtrip per person out of your pocket so that point is sort of moot. Anyway, you admitted that you travelled way too often. The point was that AE is a borderline fraud for *occassional* travelers. If you're a typical vacation traveler with 1 or 2 flights per year, you likely wont accumulate enough to claim an F ticket anyway.
Yes, but one would still be paying for flights somewhere for a vacation and even the savings of the cost in economy ($1,500-$2,000 to the same destination) makes it a valid consideration of ROI. And we're certainly not talking about the one or two trip a year AE member, though some of these can earn enough for such trips if they run enough through their credit cards to boost their account balances.