Originally Posted by 84fiero

I hadn't really thought about this aspect but good points all around. The miles game isn't rocket science or brain surgery. It just takes a bit of time and effort depending on how much one wishes to maximize it. I suppose that there so many newbies or folks who don't pay any attention to their earn-burn of miles, that anyone who even appears to have some working knowledge of the details seems expert-like.

I do all of the management of our miles & points, and trip planning, in our household, so my wife has just a cursory awareness of any details of programs and such (and that's how she prefers it). And yet, she almost always is the most knowledgeable person when the topic comes up when she's at a gathering of friends, family reunion, etc. I'd submit that she could probably cobble together a blog that's no worse than many that are out there who profess to be "experts".