<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by wideman:
You can pick apart details in the article, but overall it's my experience that frequent flyer benefits are 'way less than they were 3 or 5 years ago:...
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EX-cellent post, wideman. You've identified an in--between place that I think a lot of us are in. That is, there's still some value(usually) to working a FF program, but it gets harder every year to justify the effort. I, too, find the decline in benefits on most airlines "very troubling" to quote you once more.
And, I also think you hit the timeframe right on. That's about when I first started noticing the decline in the program I was platinum in at the time.