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Old Jun 15, 2014 | 5:57 am
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Originally Posted by Andy2
Since miles from flying are not as important of a source of total mileage accumulation, I do not think that the honey trap effect of consumers choosing to fly one airline over another is as great as the authors believe.
The problem with that statement is that you assume that the majority of members use credit cards or MS to get miles... And that is most likely not true either. Most members don't play the mileage game.
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