<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by wormwood:
and a huge rise in redemption rates is good?</font>
Not at all for us, but possibly for the airlines. If people are exploiting a loophole, it most certainly will be closed before too long. Probably the most likely way to combat this is to raise the redemption rates for those awards that the airline perceives are too good of a deal for the miles.