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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just pick an airline and a lounge you want. Open the best credit card for those, and try to use that airline whenever possible.

[b]In general I think the games are just to entertain people who have to travel for work and are stuck there anyway. [/b]It’s much better to be a leisure traveler and just pay for the perks you want as you go.

Except I do think it’s nice to have access to a lounge and they will give it to you just for opening a card so you might as well. I think it’s worth the Amex fee, but I would have had an Amex anyway. [/quote]

OP here. Good point. I had miles for upgrades all the time when I used to travel for work, but haven't traveled for work in years. [/quote]

Most airlines - and all the airlines I can think of -  have made it MUCH harder to use airline points for upgrades now versus 10-15 years ago.  Free economy seats via airline points seem readily available at least on United.

The airlines now often offer sell upgrades to front cabin seats at a discounted cash payment rate either at booking or at check-in. The airlines would rather have someone's cash than payment in points, even though award charts were devalued and then replaced with "dynamic pricing".

Now they release few if any front cabin seats for frequent flyer free upgrades at -96 hrs / -48 hrs / -24 hrs.

Booking partner airlines using airline points is harder to achieve in reality than it sometimes sounds from the various sites pushing travel credit cards.

For us, free hotel rooms (using hotel points) in places we travel have been so much easier to find. Status generally gets us free breakfasts. [/quote]

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