Originally Posted by
Cerenity
air miles has decent value. its easy to redeem for 20 cents per mile value net, after all fees/surcharges.
of course i prefer to not have to pay AF and get the same net benefit, but once no AF offers are on cooldown, 2nd best is better than nothing.
I abandoned collecting Air Miles a decade ago (or more), but with the free points from the Amex (currently 1500 AMs and $0 FYF, till June 30th) and BMO MC (500 AMs, no AF) cards, I would get those before going for the BMO Gold MC at $99 for 2000 AMs....but, yes, if you are hungry for points, go crazy and get them all.
Without very, very LITTLE effort on my part to spend to collect Air Miles, and just mainly using card signups, plus Amex allowing two different card accounts to funnel points into the same Air Miles account, we've collected over 6000 Air Miles in the past year and a half.
I rarely go out of my way to shop to earn Air Miles, yet surprisingly it's been fairly easy to accumulate the points. We only needed to get to 3000 points for 2 tix from YYZ to YYT, but overshot our target by two-fold!
