Frequent Flyer
Frequent flyer miles turn air travel into a game, and this short documentary follows the people who play it seriously. It looks at the culture built around loyalty programs: travelers who chase status tiers, hoard points, and reroute their lives around maximizing miles rather than getting somewhere. Airports and airplanes become the backdrop for a subculture most passengers never notice, one where a boarding pass is less about a destination than about a running score. The film treats its subjects as a distinct tribe with their own strategies, jargon, and obsessions, observing how a marketing gimmick from the airline industry became, for some, a genuine way of life. At twenty minutes it stays focused and specific rather than broad, offering a close look at a habit hiding in plain sight inside every terminal.