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Old Oct 16, 2009 | 8:41 am
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schley
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Originally Posted by mre5765

I only earn 500K UA RDMs per year (Chase, *A flying, and hotels). I fly about 20 domestic round trips per year on UA. To upgrade those all with RDMs would cost 20*2*15 = 600K RDMs, leaving me nothing to use for vacation travel.
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Feel free to remove the ONLY in front of the 500K UA RDM's.

I think it is safe to say you accrue more than 95% of FTer's.
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