My family collect Air Miles diligently and use the points for short haul only flights, although we did get a couple of tickets to Calgary last year. It works out to between 20 to 50 cents an air mile and of course we all fly on them. I did run into an older women at Sobeys who was doing in the cash for points, which is just an awful value, but she told me she does not fly, which makes sense. Between BMO, Sobeys we get several flights a year and what we do not use the children use. It all started with the BMO/WestJet deal which was really good, but Air miles is the best right now. The big issue for me is that the Americans do not pay the airline extra fees, so why do we in Canada, Maybe the idiots we elect could pass a law to make that illegal.