Unfortunately JC25, your plan doesn't work because a flight with anything other the cheapest fare available is blocked out for redemption reservations. Plus, the points expire within 12 months - long before I've ever been able to find redemption space.
It also incorrect to conflate the issue of high tax (which is a disgrace, I'll agree) and Flybe's incredibly opaque surcharges which, uniquely in this industry, vary according to demand dynamics. (In other words, surcharges vary between passengers on the same flight, which makes a mockery of calling them surcharges...they're not fixed fees, they're just part of the fare.) Flybe NEVER pays UK tax on behalf a passenger, it just reduces its own variable surcharges occasionally on zero fares (and, in doing so, gets right up the nose of its most regular customers).
Nothing against Flybe as a very well-run business, but let's not pretend it's anything other than a master of the art of price-gouging, well above Ryanair.
Not to mention the flat fee of GBP 11 to pay by credit card (including the official Flybe credit card) if you please...
Last edited by ajamieson; 11th Mar 2013 at 14:22.