Originally Posted by
kokonutz
If a 'real' charter company with overhead and resources in place looked at the market for what amounts to $3000-$5000 (membership fee plus megado fee) seats on a charter flight...well....how hard would it be for a company like that to create a charter catering to points and miles hoarders? (that is a sincere rather than a rhetorical question...I honestly don't know the answer)
Getting a plane, picking a few airports and flying between them is pretty easy. Getting the other companies involved is rather more difficult. It sin't like United, American or Lufthansa is offering up tours of their operations to 150+ people on a daily basis and the MegaDo crew just picked a slot. Ditto for some of the FF-related benefits which have come from the events. Buying the points - especially EQPs - outright from the airlines isn't simply a matter of calling up the main number and giving them a CC number for the deal.