Originally Posted by
abmj-jr
Friend: "Oh, I don't have the time or patience to mess with that miles stuff. I don't even belong to a program. I just fly whatever is cheapest."
In fairness, while it might seem like a crazy response to the people here, for a large portion of the public it's probably not as stupid as it sounds. If you're not a frequent enough traveler, there's really little benefit to the frequent flier programs because you just aren't going to earn miles fast enough for it to be worth it. And given that there's some programs where the miles still expire, that makes it even that much less useful. Some people I know haven't been on a plane in years (not that I can completely blame them, when travelling as a family means 5 people, that can get pretty expensive pretty quick). Someone like that isn't really going to derive a lot of benefits from miles.