Originally Posted by mjm572
Who here is going to turn down a free flight? If you use WN enough, their FF program is great because there are very few blackout dates making it very easy to get a free flight, always a nice reward.
Well, it's not about turning down a free flight. My travel pattern which is essentially for pleasure, not business, takes me to Europe to see parents or otherwise just to visit friends or family domestically. Since I love to fly international F and prices for full fare F RT are around $10K+, using miles for those is great. Domestic fares tend to be reasonable unless you have to fly tomorrow.
So for me free dom tix are certainly nice, but I would prefer to accrue miles for int'l travel. Unfortunately I can't do this with Southwest.