Air Miles just got devalued

[davext]

Huh... my wife and I have been collecting airmiles with our mastercards... we buy *everything* on credit, and then pay it off immediately so that we've never owed any interest. After about 5 years of this We've currently got enough for about 4 return flights to anywhere in north america

I'm almost certain you'd be better off with other reward cards if you were able to earn that much.

Air Miles is the worst of almost all the other evils.

I used to fly back and forth to the States on NWA, and it would give me 25 miles per segment which was great when I flew 50 times a year but after that ended, it took forever to get airmiles. I know you can get airmiles if you go to the airmiles site and then from there, go to Expedia to book your vacations. That's one way to really bank some miles.

[Dopplegangerr]

I have been using a Air Miles credit cart for more then ten years and still have saved very little. Not enough for a trip thats for sure. I will be switching over to a cashback credit card, something I wish I had done many many years ago

[Jim9guitars]

I recently discovered that shopping for groceries at almost any store that doesn't deal with airmiles is so much cheaper that it is pointless(pun intended) to continue using airmiles and shopping in expensive stores. One example, the airmiles grocery store charges over $2.00 more for the same jar of peanut butter that 3 other local stores carry.

[BBB]

I have used a airmiles card for last 2 years or so, but just checked and found I had 400 or so points. Just got a year subscription to Money Sense, so its not a total waste I guess.

[AmandaGrifin]

One thing to keep in mind regardless of which type of travel card you get IT IS VERY IMPORTANT to pay the balance of your charges in full every month as the finance charges on any unpaid balances will quickly add up to much more than the value of any free ticket you may earn.

[dogcom]

For me I hate air miles or points because you just don't know the value of them. For example you need 12,000 points to get a toaster and next month it could be 15,000 for all I know.

I shop at Canadian tire so I use Canadian tire money reward because a dollar is a dollar in Canadian tire money. I also never see where you need a 1000 dollars Canadian tire money to buy a toaster that is 10 Canadian dollars.

[HaroldCrump]

^ in other words, programs like Air Miles and Aeroplan are the true meters of inflation, not the garbage CPI numbers that the govt. puts out.

[gibor]

For last several years I used Airmiles (I have Airmiles AMEX and card) to buy gift cards to The Keg and I liked it as 2 or 3 times per year we were going there.... last year Keg stop dealing with Airmiles (probably The Keg has plenty of customers w/o airmiles)... so now I was just buimg Metro coupons.... and yes I prefer using my order reward Visa CC (at least they refund real money)

[travelgeek]

Airmiles has just discontinued the Metro, Shell, and Pharma Plus gift cards/certificates. So you won't be able to use your remaining dream balances miles for those.

[HaroldCrump]

Why do I get the feeling that Air Miles is falling apart.
All these recent changes point to a dissolution, probably bankruptcy.
I am going to start redeeming my miles right away.