interesting perspecitves here. I guess i only look at it from opne perspective and that is another reader to the cause of miles and points. Having said that and also understand quite well the Mileage Run concept - where and what could I do in spending $59.95 that could earn me more than 3,000 Skymiles? I'm sure I can'y buy a ticket anywhere for $60 and if i could, would it cover 3,000 actual flight miles? When I pay my MCI phone bill for $60 i only get 300 miles totoal. When spending $60 at Home Depot, i only earn 120 miles, etc. I see both the views of upgrader and of Angeleyes (nice user name) and certainly they have different goals as members of this program. I suppose that even someone else may argue you may be missing the point - for instance if you were looking at this as only to enhance your miles, i think many might say that gee, i could purchase 13 subscriptions to InsideFlyer for $780, earn almost 40,000 miles which is enough for an upgrade to BusinessElite on my next trip to Europe and only have to purchase a coach ticket, meaning i would be flying in a seat that would have normally cost me $4,500 to $5,700 for only the $780 plus cost of a coach ticket (maybe $800 for a total of $1580) and also knowing that I would earn base miles for re-qualify Medallion as well as any bonus for status. Like the other members of FlyerTalk who have figured things out, this may have merit, just like Angeleyes and her (sorry, my assumption) looking at topping off her account, etc.

Now, you may think about this - 3,000 Delta miles really converts to 6,000 Hilton HHonors points, so if you are playing these top offs. etc. and 6,000 points at Hilton is good for a free wekend night with Point Stretcher awards or better yet, 50% off of your weekend STAY. Now last time in New York for the weekend, the best rate I could get was $139 per night at the Towers, 50% off the weekend was a savings of $139 from a possible purchase of the $59.95 InsideFlyer offer. There's many ways to look at all this but i hope you will always consider that the magazine itself is not worthless - a reminder that it pays for you to enjoy FlyerTalk, as cactuspete has said.