An elegant scheme

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How Frequent Fliers Exploit A Government Program To Get Free Trips (NPR)

Linked from News From The Future: Travel Hacking with Failed Government Currency (Make:)

This is perfectly legal. Note the differing titles, and the implied views of government.

Comments

[basil80]

I listened to the NPR article and I have to say, it was presented as a bit sneaky--although they were quite clear that it is legal to do this.

On the other hand, it has to piss off the credit card companies really, really badly.