Originally Posted by
Mikey
However, even the Southwest program will tell me that it takes 60 points to be worth a dollar of airfare (or some number like that).
No longer. Southwest announced a few months ago that it was changing (from being a fixed amount of points per dollar), and they refused to explain what it was changing to, or by how much, or under what circumstances:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/south...17-2015-a.html