If money is no object would you have a FF program?
Jun 28, 2005 | 7:39 am
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Originally Posted by Ken in Phx
I dont think "smart" rich people do this. More likely they go the Marquis Jet route. At somewhere around 4k an hour ( counting wheels up to wheels down) its a deal. Professional pilots, smaller airports and the ability to drive up park, walk to the plane and away you go in 20 minutes or less.
Plus I think Marquis Jet is a Warren Buffett owned company.
Ken in Phx
Plus I think Marquis Jet is a Warren Buffett owned company.
Ken in Phx
Jun 28, 2005 | 7:09 pm
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Count me in the Private Jet class as well. I thing a GS V, or what ever the fully loaded version would suit me fine. Remember, money is no object. 
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Jun 28, 2005 | 11:28 pm
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This is a question I have often thought about. I would be a member of an FFP if only to give the miles away to both charity and to loved ones. That way I could buy myself into heaven.
Jun 29, 2005 | 7:06 am
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Originally Posted by BearX220
You know it. If money were no object I would get out of this nightmare altogether: invasive security, nonsensical and borderline-fraudulent FF programs run by anti-customer companies staffed by vindictive, hateful employees... why would a seriously rich person put up with any of this?
Anyway, as if I were going to get out of the game like a rich guy could, I have already begun ramping down from mileage programs in the following way, and with a plan in mind:
1) making all FFPs I use or plan to use be at or near std award levels I can and will use in the next 6-12 months
2) cutting out the stuff I do not use (stray miles, emails from programs I do nothing with anyway, and the llike)
3) joining up on less, but going only for the big kills. I concentrate on ly on 3 airlines now--one of each partnership-- and if I were rich, I would probably still look for deals, but I would not care so much to collect these little buggers as much. If I were filthy rich, I would change the entire system like Ralph Nader changed car brakes.
the entire make up of mile programs is going to change and I wanna be ready to get out without losses and then not care when the axe does fall. And oh, it WILL fall. I feel it.
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