I've just started using Flybe regularly and will continue to do so for short haul UK flights a couple of times a week for the next six months or so. Having built up many, many thousands of points on longer haul flights with Virgin and US Airways over the past number of years, I'm more than a little sceptical about their value. For holidays, when I would like to use my points to subsidise or upgrade, I find that as I'm travelling during school holiday periods, they are next to useless. I'm happy to join the Avios programme with Flybe, but wonder is it any more use to me than the others.

There are many regular flyers here, does anyone have an opinion on whether Avios is any better or worse than the others and how likely am I to be able to use these once I have accumulated them? Will I be able to use them to subsidise my flights to Florida?