<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by seat 50J:

7 Reasons to toss your ff cards.
1. Waste of time

Given the choice of spending an extra two hours in a place I really don't want to be anyway or making a few extra miles, the miles will win.

2. Hard to get an award

Never had an issue with awards


3. Worthless (a mile is merely a penny)

And a penny is only a penny, but if you have 100 of them you have a dollar, and if you have 100 of those... If I need to get someplace and don't want to spend a ton of money on the fare, or want an upgrade I couldn't possibly justify paying for, they are worth much more then a penny.


4. Tax Liability

Not an issue


5. Makes you waste money.

Not an issue, as attested to here time and time again, the most frequent fliers are always looking for the lowest possible fares.

6. Makes you make stupid decisions

Don't agree with this one either, most people don't make stupid decisions, they get miles for things they were going to buy anyways. Most of us will send flowers in a couple of weeks, why not get ten miles per dollar?

7. Non existant perks

Again, I have never had an issue with this, run about 80% upgrades when I want them, have never ever not gotten my requests award flights, love the separate check in lines, boarding first, more space between the seats, etc.


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