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Old Apr 3, 2008 | 12:11 pm
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itsme
 
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Originally Posted by guschwa
...Could it have something to do with Rupert Murdoch? Maybe miles subscriptions are not profitable for them?
Don't know about what is and what isn't profitable for the parties to those deals, that is the airline FFPs and the WSJ, but isn't the WSJ planning to give it away free online? Or have I misunderstood their intentions and they only intend to do what they are doing now, that is to put some, but far from all of their content online. Anyone know? (I will still prefer to hold the paper in my hands to reading it online.)

Will try to find the WSJ offer on UA, but does anyone happen to know the details, that is the number of miles for how many weeks? I seem to recall looking into it in the past and concluding that while it was a reasonable way to use miles, it wasn't a killer return on the miles.

Also, I'd rather burn some US or CO miles. Anyone know if all those FFPs offer WSJ options? And that magazine service that brokers miles for magazine deals, are they still around? I received Forbes for 1 year through them in a very good deal, but when I went back to look at their list of magazines for miles, I didn't see Forbes still there, and what they did offer was mostly junk.
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