welcome to flyertalk.

some here are only interested in earning miles and they cannot bring themselves to fly without getting the miles. i myself found it difficult to buy an award ticket last year for just that reason. 6000 miles that i didnt get added to my account. in addition, i used 360,000 miles for the 3 tickets. it didnt matter that i flew over 200,000 miles last year and had about 140,000 logged at the time of my vacation. i have about 1 million miles in my ua account alone. add the amex, dl, hp, aa, hilton, marriott, starwood, blah blah blah and i have so many points and coupons and stuff i can never use them all.


if the ticket is for work, i always buy it with money. no reason for them to get a free ride. if it is for my pleasure, i look at the cost of the ticket. my tolerance is $500 r/t.

like the others here, i try to avoid coach at all costs and i would never, ever fly over 5 hours in coach. so most intl. destinations that i would go to would need to be in F or C.

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