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Old Nov 12, 2009 | 7:06 pm
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If you fly 25K or 35K miles, respectively, most here believe it is a good value.

If you did a $175 mileage run, best case (for example DCA-IAH-SFO) you would earn 11,372 miles plus any bonus for credit card charge. So 17.5K miles is a better deal. Plus a $175 mileage run is hard to come by.
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