mileage run

Before you pay for airline perks in 2010 – consider a mileage run (and soon)

by Janice Hough on October 21, 2009

Now that most major airlines in the U.S. have figured out how to charge for just about everything short of the lavatories – and trust me, that could be coming – an airline ticket has become the equivalent of the base price in an automobile ad. By the time you add up the final bill, the price is a lot higher.

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Two days in Sydney, Australia – Are you crazy? You flew how many miles?

by Karen Fawcett on July 31, 2009

Who flies from Washington, DC, to Sydney, Australia, for slightly more than two days? Clearly only a nut or someone on a mileage run who was taking advantage of the deeper than deep discounted fares to go “down under.” What I didn’t realize is Sydney is an adult playground. Will I return? You bet.

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