Frequent Fliers: Check the fine print

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Christopher Elliott, Special for USA TODAY Airline frequent-flier programs may be useless, but some are more useless than others. That's the takeaway from a new survey by website MileCards.com, which shared its results with me even though I'm America's No. 1 loyalty-program critic. What were they thinking? The research probably won't change your mind about the folly of frequent-flier programs, but it is useful in one respect: It separates the loyalty schemes in which you can't possibly win from the ones that aren't half bad. MileCards crunched nine months of data for five programs representing 90% of U.S. frequent-flier membership, analyzing redemption rates in economy class...