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If you buy anything from anywhere or via any means that offers “points” when you buy stuff, and you don’t take-up that offer, then you’re effectively paying extra to fund the “points” they give to someone else. So you either swallow that fact & accept it‘s a cost of living life, you get involved in the points scheme (being careful that any membership fees will be made-up for something you would actually have bought otherwise), or you just don’t use/buy the product at all.
If it were possible to buy an airline ticket without paying the extra it costs to provide loyalty points, and put the money you saved aside, you’d be paying less for your flights &/or upgrades in the long run. But the business-model doesn’t allow that, of course.
If it were possible to buy an airline ticket without paying the extra it costs to provide loyalty points, and put the money you saved aside, you’d be paying less for your flights &/or upgrades in the long run. But the business-model doesn’t allow that, of course.