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Blogger Chris Guillebeau recently wrote about his experience acquiring over 800,000 US Airways miles. This got me thinking about the risk element involved in much of air travel.

Most readers would view the risk of being stuck in a middle seat at the back of Economy Class on a longhaul flight as something to be avoided. Yet 90% of passengers simply don’t care or don’t know any better. They sit wherever the computer system assigns them.

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