http://heromiles.com Stuff You Can Do With Airline Travel Miles Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:03:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://heromiles.com/just-pitch-those-frequent-flyer-points-in-the-garbage/ http://heromiles.com/just-pitch-those-frequent-flyer-points-in-the-garbage/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:56:05 +0000 admin http://heromiles.com/?p=90 I mean really, are they actually saving us any money, or is it just a scam peratrated by the travel companies to get us to spend more time traveling.  Sure, I’ve heard of people getting lots of free trips by using frequent flyer miles.  Actually, I was one of them.  But that was a little different in my situation.  I was working for a consulting company, that was flying me all over North America.  So, I wasn’t picking up the tab.  But, I was reaping the rewards of the travel program.  But, for the average person who only travels once every so often, it’s pretty tough to get enough points to actually take a nice trip.  Think about it. Have you ever heard of anyone, that took their entire family on a an amazing trip with their air miles points.  I mean, like going down to Aruba or some other Caribbean island for a couple of weeks.  I did it, but only because I flew every week for a few years.  So, is it really worth it for the travel companies to keep offering these programs.  Just think of the logistics and expense they have to go through to administer them.  In the long run, we’d probably be better of if they just pitched the whole concept into the circular file drawer.

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