I have very little faith in the airlines to maintain their current benefits in the future. They have all started to sell miles from flowers to cars to mortgages. With all these additional miles that they are selling, do you think that they really are planning on giving away more free seats. I highly doubt it. They are just selling miles now, which in the future will be devalued by less award availability and possibly higher mileage requirements. I think that they are just looking at profits now, without considering the future. Sure you can make the argument that they can't afford to risk angering customers, but i say that the airline industry is one of the most monopolistic around, and they don't have too much concern when all the other's are diluting there miles too. I see little talk about this, but I feel that the airlines selling miles really just dilutes our miles, and that frequent traveler's should take this as a slap in the face.