You really don&#x27;t have to spend hours min-maxing your miles like described in the article. Just spend two minutes creating an account online, and ten seconds inputting your member number when buying tickets or checking in. Then two years later check your balance and you might have a free ticket worth $500+. That&#x27;s a huge return given the amount of time invested.<p>It&#x27;s like credit cards. There are entire websites dedicated to min-maxing the hell out of credit card points, sign-up bonuses, etc. But you don&#x27;t have to do that. You can just spend an hour getting a good credit card (assuming you can :&#x2F;) and then reap massive benefits compared to the amount of time invested.