Originally Posted by mahasamatman
No, it doesn't. If you did, you could pay for one trip and fly for free for the rest of your life. Once all the airlines go out of business, what do you do then? Either that, or award tickets go up to 1,000,000 miles each.
That's a bit melodramatic don't you think? The only way you could "fly free the rest of your life" is if the number of miles flown equated the number of miles redeemed for the flight. While an outlying situation may exist where you get 25,000 miles for flying a domestic route it's highly unlikely.