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Old Jul 23, 2009 | 3:12 pm
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Originally Posted by knifemein
I've got all these miles saved up, which could afford me some nice F/J travel, or at least free Y travel.. but I'd hate to miss out on collecting more miles and the bonuses that come with it! Anybody else struggle with this?
Miss out on collecting miles and bonuses? But at what cost?

I have no problem using miles for myself. A flight from central MN to FAI costs almost $900 round trip. Even if I drove to MSP and flew from there, about $800 round trip - in economy. If I paid for that ticket, I would earn about 12,000 miles. But I use 25K miles for the flight to FAI and I can use that $900 to go to Europe - just about twice in the winter, earning me far more miles and value than paying for a ticket to Alaska just to "earn miles."
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