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Old Oct 11, 2009 | 12:08 pm
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Originally Posted by flyer2irl
Why transfer points? When not using a AMEX partner airline what I do is call (Must call) AMEX travel and say for ex I want to book an AA flight to ? using points. If the cost of the ticket (slightly higher than booking through airline on line) is $600.00 then 60,000 points are needed for free ticket $700.00 70,000 points and so on. The beauty of this is I still receive metal miles on the airline that I'm flying and the ticket was free using AMEX points.
Try that for a $2200 ticket that has an open-jaw and an extra stopover in Europe. It'll cost you 220K points for the trip in Y. I booked that trip with the return in Biz for 100K points each for 2 seats by using CO as the conduit. I think I did pretty well there.
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