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Old Sep 23, 2003 | 7:05 pm
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Because it would be abused by people buying super cheap fares just for the miles. You could buy miles cheaper than a ticket.

Imagine if Southwest did that (which is a bit of an extreme case), you could just go to their website and buy the four cheapest R/T tickets for under $200 and have an unrestricted award ticket. It would totally break Southwest's program and they'd have to scale it back dramatically ... the same goes for other airlines to a lesser extent.
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