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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 5:59 am
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Originally Posted by tullupump
While I agree with mia and others that Premium International award travel is the best value of MR points, I would recommend first checking to make sure that the airline has availability before you transfer.

I am facing a similar situation where I would like to use my AMEX MR points to redeem for travel to SYD in C. However when I check availability on any carrier, there seems to be very little inventory that is available. I am reluctant to transfer a large number of points into carriers program (especially one I never fly) and then just have them sit there with very little chance of redemption.

Any suggestions would be welcome...
There is lots of award inventory LAX-SYD at the moment. Both on QF and UA. There is also some availability on NZ but not much and hardly anything on AC. OZ also has availability form Chicago.
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