Actually, I have been rather successful with my Continental miles (my
sh-tload). One just needs to plan ahead and set the trip on the day that
they start taking miles for that trip. The miles is the other benefit of
the credit card usage indeed. I use it for everything and pay it all on
time.
Tomes

"Todd H." wrote in message ...
"C. Massey" writes:

If AA is anything like Continental,

Happily it's not. :-)

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