Today we booked our flights to Quito Ecuador, leaving from
Grand Junction in April and returning in July. We used Frequent
Flyer miles. To me, this is semi-momentous since I think that
the practice of airlines giving Frequent Flyer miles to the
average, non-business traveller will shortly become a thing
of the past. The airlines wouldn't dare take away this perk
from business travelers since this segment is the bread and
butter of their operation. However, most non-business, leisure
travelers don't fly enough to get upset over losing something
that they're probably never going to take advantage of
anyway. So who will this hurt? People like Lynn and I who
are somewhere in between. We fly roughly 25,000 miles per
year, which is not quite enough for a free ticket for
international travel, but too many miles to brush off as
something to be ignored.
Of course, I'm not basing this theory of disappearing miles
on anything but a gut feeling, so hopefully I'll be very wrong.
In the meantime, we're going to enjoy our free flight next
month. I hope it won't be our last free trip that we're able
to take using miles.
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