Article: Weekender: Travel: Are Air Miles worth saving? YOU NEED TO SPEND A MINT TO GET AWAY SPEND pounds 75,000 AND GET A FREE TRIP TO SYDNEY.(Features)

Byline: IAIN MAYHEW

MORE than seven million people collect Air Miles by buying their shopping at Tesco or filling up at Shell service stations.

For every pounds 5 you spend, you get one Air Mile - enough to get you to the end of the runway. But just how much do you have to spend to make Air Miles worthwhile?

Daily Mirror reader Daphne Kerr from West Bromwich says she tried to book a flight to Australia to see her daughter paying part cash and using her Air Miles.

"The flight was slightly cheaper than I was quoted elsewhere," she says. ...

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