I wouldn't be surprised if I were the biggest winner. We are very lucky in that we are able to put a good portion of our business expenses on credit cards which are paid off in full ever month, so the cost of those miles is $0.00.

Here are some examples of our completely free travel:

Four biz/first tickets on BA SEA/LHR/AGP/BCN/PMI/LHR/SEA. The cost of these tickets, had we purchased them, would have been $60,000.00

Two tickets on Concorde, at a total cost of $24,000.00.

Five next day coach tickets SEA/SRQ for my mother's funeral, which would have cost over $10,000.00. This was pre-FlyerTalk when coach was still an option.

A beautiful free suite at the Waldorf Astoria for the weekend of the Brooklyn Reality Tour. I have no idea what it would have cost. It was one of those stay 5 get one free deals.

Another beautiful, completely free, suite at the Prince de Galles in Paris, on another stay so many get so many free deal.

Four tickets in first SEA/SFO/SYD/AKL which if purchased would have cost $98,600.00. We got the deal so our total cost was somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,600, saving us over $90,000.00. ^

If I really sat down and calculated the value of all of our freebies and airline and hotel upgrades over the last ten years, I am certain that it would be over $1,000,000.00, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.

The real value of FlyerTalk is in the amazing friends and experiences it has brought into my life. The parties in Dusseldorf, Honolulu, Anchorage, Venice, New York, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Tel Aviv, Sydney, Valencia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Amsterdam, Fort Lauderdale, Tokyo, San Antonio, Auckland, Boca Raton, Miami, Los Angeles, El Paso, Cannes, Washington D.C., Basel, San Francisco, Vancouver, San Diego, Montreal, Toronto, Jerusalum, London, Whistler, and many more, are priceless memories.

Hey, why not party like a rock star. You only live once.