Originally Posted by
sdsearch
This section of the FlyerTalk forum is called Miles & Points, and I think it was even called that 17 years ago.
And even some airlines, including Southwest Airlines, use points, not miles.
So I think perhaps a better term might have been milespointspost.
Milepost seemed like a confusing term when the example being quoted above was searching for a hotel, not an airline. I know of know hotel programs that call their currency "miles".
Seems like a discussion of the pros and cons of a term someone used in a post 7 years ago is not particularly helpful to anyone, or relevant to the topic of the thread.