Excellent post!

I have been flying for some time and I think I know already a little bit more than average passenger but I still get confused with these complicated rules about when you earn and how much. Or more like I tend to forget because there is so many rules and exceptions that it is impossible for me to remember all the little exceptions.

Good thing is that I gave up and stopped worrying about those. I will get the points if I get them and I just try to remember to deposit them to some frequent flyer program if possible. But if I would be caring about the points like couple of years ago, I would be going nuts while trying to track these. It is so easy to end up in the situation where you think that you would be earning something but then because of some tricky rule, you will not get anything.