Thank you for starting this thread ignorant1 ,

In addition to Flying Blue, there are several threads about Air Canada playing the same game, to the extent that they've left passengers stranded in China. While I realize that China is fraud central, my opinion is that tickets booked with transferred in points should be honored unless the airlines have solid proof that their TOS has been violated. If AFKL or AC dislikes people who don't fly and credit flights to their frequent flyer programs, they should terminate their agreements with the banks.

The main reason I have flexible credit cards is because I'm able to convert points to miles in FFPs that I would never dream of earning miles by flying. I will continue to put flying miles in AA, DL, and UA because SQ, CX, JL, are terrible options unless you live in Singapore, HK, or Japan. If those airlines don't want us (or even scammers) to transfer in miles, that's their problem.

Switching topics, I didn't stumble upon the Information Desk subforum until about a year ago, but I think it's great resource. I check it several times per week, and comment on many threads, even if my message is to head to specific forums where the experts hang out. Those guys end up with double exposure without starting duplicate threads, which is pretty cool. I also want to point out that ID is the only subforum that gets a direct link in the forums directly. We shouldn't chastise anyone, especially newbies, who starts threads here.