Papollo: Thanks for your response. Maybe American is distributing cereal in a particular pattern. I'm in South Florida where AA has a huge presence. There are no inexpensive cereals here. The least expensive I've seen is $3.69 for a small box of bran cereal. Perhaps AA wants to make it easier to get less expensive cereals in markets where they don't have a great presence. They are not giving the miles away out of pure generosity. Perhaps they plan to stop the distribution of the cheaper FF cereals when buyers have a greater interest in accruing more miles to finally get that "free ticket".

The fact that the promotion last for 18 months probably means the average buyer will have miles but not enough for a ticket. They will then becomes addicts like us and begin to buy tix on AA.

Wineman (in the cereal whirl)