[Butch Cassidy Slept Here]

No one here has bothered to point-out the fraud that airline FF programs are. Perhaps, as azstar (who probably works for US Airways) has pointed-out, it MAY be possible to land a trans-con FF ticket for $25 - $50. What azstar is, most likely, LESS willing to trumpet is the real possibility that, unless you're a triple platnum FF member, the only FF ticket an average person can land is for a flight that leave at 5:00 AM on a Wednesday in February!

Years ago, supermarkets realized they generate more good will by not handing-out S&H Green Stamps (a 1960s version of FF for supermarkets), and lowering prices instead. Indeed, if one notices, the airlines with, truly decent service, like Southwest, and Virgin America, have rather modest FF programs.