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The best frequent-flier rewards

Frequent-flier miles seem like a great idea—until you try to cash them in for a free trip and find that you can’t, said Scott McCartney in The Wall Street Journal. That is least likely to happen, according to a study by consulting firm IdeaWorks, if you book a domestic flight with Southwest Airlines, which honored 99.3 percent of frequent-flier seat requests last year, followed by JetBlue Airways, which had seats available 79.3 percent of the time. US Airways and Delta were the worst, failing to grant almost three out of every four requests for free seats. Overall, IdeaWorks found U.S. airlines this year honoring 68.6 percent of requests for a domestic ticket in exchange for the standard 25,000 miles, up slightly from last year’s 66.1 percent. But travelers with miles to cash in should brace for disappointment this summer, as many flights are already fully booked.

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