<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Horizons:
Doesn't anyone else find it weird that the flag carrier of a country that prides itself on being so inherently sensible, practical and metric would change its loyalty program to a miles base? Isn't that, like, a throwback to the 19th century?
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Miles (in their nautical version, viz. 1.8 km rather than 1.6 km) is the standard unit of aeronautical distance, even in those countries which use the metric system for land distances.