The edge was in US Air giving a large promo multiplier on the sales price. It was a one-time deal. You got something like 142 miles per dollar. Alas, they (Trackitback) went broke well after the credit card chargeback window closed, or the miles would have been free.

Really, we should set the bar for being impressed on this kind of stuff at well over 1 MM miles nowadays. The pudding guy's million was unheard-of at the time because credit card bonuses were small, maybe 10-25k at a time. Nowadays a husband and wife team can do that without working up a sweat. Let's call it 5 MM cumulatively, or anything over 1 MM in less than a dozen transactions to be a .......