Loyalty Points as a Game?
00:00:00.000 | I signed up for this newsletter called Loyalty Point Hunters.
00:00:02.580 | And so I get these like, oh, here's this offer where you buy a meal kit and the discount
00:00:06.920 | basically makes it $5, but you get thousands of loyalty points.
00:00:09.780 | And a part of me just really wants to play this game.
00:00:12.080 | And then a part of me thinks it's absolutely crazy because I never fly American.
00:00:15.720 | So I'm going to address my own problems after I run through this inventory.
00:00:20.900 | But I figured it's kind of helpful to hear where all these statuses came from, how I
00:00:25.560 | ended up with them, because they do provide a ton of benefit.
00:00:29.100 | When you have a lot of statuses, you're boarding early, you're earning more points, you're
00:00:33.860 | not paying for check bags, all kinds of things like that.
00:00:36.300 | I am happy I have them.
00:00:37.440 | I just think to some extent, it's a little crazy, given that we're not flying that often.
00:00:42.740 | On the flip side, I really love it.
00:00:44.620 | And it's kind of a game.
00:00:45.560 | So if I treat it from that perspective, then it's really interesting.