air travel costs

i got pointed toward a blog today that's very interesting, in a couple of ways.

here's the story of the guy. in a nutshell, he's flying around north america on an unlimited travel pass, his goal to accumulate enough travel reward miles for the equivalent of 10 return business-class trips between vancouver and australia.

his blog is here.

the main point: he pays $7000 and in return he gets unlimited air canada travel across north america for two months.

check here to see how much our liberal lords and masters pay per flight. more than this guy paid for a month's worth of unlimited travel.

so my question is this: if members of parliament are going to travel more than once in a given month within north america (which many do), instead of a travel allowance, (if this offer is repeated), why not make them take on this plan? and if they want to slink off to miami for the weekend, hey, it's a perk of the job.