Originally Posted by
relangford
This may be a stupid question, but .... Why would the airlines care as long as the miles are being used? I understand that the major airlines have some concern about the billions (trillions??) of miles waiting out there in all the FF accounts (of course DL now takes them when you die). I might think that the airlines would want the backlog of miles to be reduced. The only thing I can think of is that the airlines don't want kettles getting free trips with the money going to the broker and the seller of the miles rather than them; however, the miles were acquired by buying tickets (or using CC).
Exactly, that's why I actually enjoy selling my miles (aside from the obvious cash incentive). They would rather (1) your miles go unused and (2) If someone's stuck with a list minute ticket now they can more easily access miles instead of paying an insanely jacked up price. They tell you you earn something, but you can't even use it! What the heck?
I will gladly go against their terms any day!
