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Old Nov 10, 2017 | 4:04 pm
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Everyone gains different value. It sounds like it isn't worth it to you. If that's the case, I would suggest staying with WN.

For me, I fly about 75% AS and the other 25% is AS partners. I'm 75k and I value the copious miles (flew RTW last year on miles), the upgrades when they happen, the consistent service, the Cyber Monday Sale, and the SDC.

I don't particularly like the route network (it is becoming harder to get to where I need to go) or some of the departure times but I work around it. AS also tends to have higher fares to just about everywhere I want to fly, but they are within reason (except DTW and ORD most of the time). Since work is paying for most of my flights, I do have to stick to one of the lowest fares (within $100 RT) and can usually get AS to fit but I get frustrated with a 21 day advance to MKE is $300 more than AA.

In the end, only you can determine the value of miles. AS doesn't fly to ORL (I assume you mean MCO). I would likely never use AS miles for a domestic flight as I don't see value there.
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