good job earning so much so quickly!!
^

Sadly, however, so many of us do this based on promos and cards that the airlines themselves offer/sponsor, that there are now far fewer seats available for FF redemption than ever before.

Strangely, the airlines say to us, "well, sir, too many people are trying to redeem all their miles. What do you expect us to do, give free seats to everybody? If we did that, we'd be out of business tomorrow!"

my answer (nearly fuming mad at the odacity of this) is often:

"Well, yes ma'am, you people gave us all the miles, sold us all the offers, deals, store codes and promos, and did monetary, rather lucrative transactions en mas with countless retailers and marketers world wide. I actually DO expect you to make good on your promises and lures of free or discounted travel and I expect it to happen forthright. Now, where are my FF award seats? If any OTHER business were so blantantly planning to NOT honor such agreements, IT would go out of business TODAY!"

Fortunately, on AA, you can still get some FF tix. And my speal does temporarily quell the speak of many so called seasoned CSRs.

MM