I have blogged about Air Miles a few times. I am seriously thinking about getting rid of Air Miles once we use up our remaining miles. We tried to use up half of them for some upcoming flights but once again, they did not have flights that worked for our schedule. We even called over 3 months ahead of time. This is the third or fourth time this has happened. This just makes me detest "Rewards Programs" even more. Some of the other tricks they do include making the flights worth more per mile than the non-travel items (such as gift cards and other merchandise). This makes it psychologically difficult to go after the non-travel items since they are valued at half the cost per mile compared to flights (sometimes worse). Seriously, on my last statement from Air Miles I got like 100 miles. Their statements are sent quarterly and 100 miles is worth like $10-20 depending on what valuation you use. So that's like less than $10 a month. Are you f$cking kidding me? The only way to get serious miles is to rack up seriously huge credit card statements or shop like crazy at Air Miles retailers, which we are never going to do. So they pay me less than $10 a month so I can go through this hassle of calling Air Miles every time I want to fly to see if they have any flights I want (which they never do), carry an extra card in my wallet, receive an extra statement, and waste my time writing a blog article about it. No thanks.