Originally Posted by
deant
I know I am showing my age, but I remember one TWA award where you bought one discount Y ticket from the US to Europe and got upgraded to F and received a second F ticket. Total mileage required - 50K. On top of that, you got triple miles for the paid ticket. Try getting a deal like that today.
As craz said, the value of the FF miles has been going down for the last 30 years.
The best part of that TW Reward was I was able to use both parts as they didnt have to be used at the same time
. Yea TLV-LAX @ 3x was great, used the free part when there wasnt any bonus going on.
Dont forget the 30k for a 1/2 price tkt and you got credit as if you paid for the whole tkt, till TW audited my acct and changed a number of ways things were done.(it was all legit, just they didnt like the idea that a person was able to spend less then $2500 and earn 100k in actual miles). BTW that 30k came right back to the acct with those TLV-LAX flights so no net loss
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Another cutie was when they gave bonus miles or actual miles out but excluded TLV and CAI and RYD. They were dumb as all I did was book the earlier flight into CDG the Infamous Flight #800, hang out in the Ambassadors Club and catch the flight onto TLV, the other choice would have been to take either the non-stop to TLV or JFK-CDG-TLV with the same flight# so no bonus miles. Or JFK-BOS-CDG-TLV worked as well
BTW all of this was yrs before FT was ever on the seen.