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Delta Revamping Mileage Program

February 28, 2014

As travelers digest Delta Air Lines’ announcement that it will become the biggest U.S. carrier to award frequent-flier miles based on airfare rather than distance flown, the switch is getting extra scrutiny from passengers who have turned earning miles into an art form.

Travel hackers — frequent fliers who try to accumulate the most points while spending as little money as possible — will be losing one major way of boosting their accounts: mileage runs. For them, cheap fares with long routes will no longer produce the same mileage bonanza under Delta’s new system.  Read more http://ow.ly/u4ORS

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