I recall no one smoking on our flight but I will verify for you. As you know I try to let people use miles wherever and whenever possible. I have found that I can personally book my own trips for $200 to $300 less if I take a class of service that does NOT include miles. For me the miles are not worth the money as I can buy a ticket for that and rarely will I accrue enough miles to earn a ticket on one int'l trip. And the industry is changing...in order to get good group fares the industry charges more if the miles qualify so they remove them and pass the savings on in MOST cases...sans the example that Rosa had. However the pricing on this trip is set up to allow you to do your own air if you like for that very reason.
Will verify the smoking thing and let you know....
Calling Scubatooth...... we need to have an immediate airline frequent flyer intervention for Kamala!!!!
With all the double miles promotions going on this year, you can't afford to not earn miles this year! I got ~ 61,000 miles for my recent roundtrip to Philippines from NYC! I believe that earns several tickets.... which are worth much more than $200-300.