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Old Oct 22, 2008 | 7:17 pm
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smackfu
 
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Originally Posted by sbm12
I also cannot figure out your sheet in terms of the accrual of JetBlue points. How do you go from 72 points to 2 points? It seems like you're redeeming a reward, but that doesn't happen until you surpass 100 points and you don't seem to ever be doing that.
What he's doing is buying enough points to get to 100 (30 in this case), then using that award flight immediately. That's those lines that say $181. He's doing this because otherwise they expire.

On the Delta side, he's waiting to use the award flights at the end.

Honestly, the games you need to play for the JetBlue don't seem worth it. One screw-up and you lose your free flight.
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