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Originally Posted by tool001
op, by the looks of how much u know about flying,, i presume u fly alot? if so, u should already be gold status on both major alliance and automatically get upgraded???
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I've averaged ~3-5 trips per year for the past five years or so. Each trip usually involves at least 4-6 flights due to connections or visiting different cities during the holiday.
So, I'm not really a hardcore frequent flyer, I just love traveling and spend most of my disposable income on it.
As mentioned, I fly the cheapest airline for a given flight (including charter / low-cost carriers that aren't part of major airline alliances) and have decided that FFPs wouldn't really be that beneficial.
If I could go back in time, I'd probably have signed up for a couple of FFPs before I started flying regularly, just to start collecting points... but at this point I'm at 0 -- and I've also become pretty good at finding flight deals without any FFP perks -- so I'm not very motivated to sign up now.
I'm sure that if you either fly business (on the same airlines) or if you regularly fly to the same destinations (again, on the same airlines), then a FFP probably makes a ton of sense.