but I lost 60K Varig Smiles last year during their reorganization. Every day I tried to book award tickets, I was informed that another *partner had been dropped. And, the Tokyo office told me that if the partnership was dropped after the tickets were issued, they would be cancelled, even if I was enroute somewhere ! With no Varig service to Japan, they said they were trying to work out an extension of the expiration date with the home office ....... which was reassuring until the Tokyo office disappeared.

The home office was less than accommodating .....