Originally Posted by
GUWonder
With airlines charging more and more fuel surcharges on frequent flyer mileage tickets, "free tickets" have become worth less -- and as fuel surcharges increase (instead of being reflected in the fare directly) miles become worth less and less.
To my knowledge, no US-based airlines apply fuel surcharges to award tickets for US-based passengers, so fortunately this is not something a lot of us have to worry about (yet). There was some speculation on other threads as to why this may be, but there never was a definitive answer.