Originally Posted by
Joshua
The US airlines have been quite careful not to call mileage anything resembling currency and to emphasise that miles have no cash value.
I definitely wouldn't want to be in a position receiving hundreds (or thousands) of something called "dollars" when travelling on full fare business class tickets for my employer. I hope these APD type schemes don't catch on in the US...
This is still true with Airpoints unless they one day decided that you can cash out your Airpoints then I am sure IRD would be very interested.