Mine lasted a year. My gf lived in boi doing research and I travelled to see her every 6 weeks.

The worst trip? syd-sfo - the stay was amazing but her flight leaving was 10 am and my flight was the red eye back to syd so I sat in SFO all day, 14 hour flight back and say in SYD for 10 for my DJ flight to christchurch...)

The internet was a life saver - skype saved us a fortune in calls, we played games together on YIM and had web cam.

I also got to earn 100k in miles with trips like syd-sfo bfs-ewr man-ord and bfs-hnl.

Nice! Now I've to pay it all off