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Old Jun 18, 2010 | 2:12 am
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Originally Posted by Lobengula
Ah but you forget one important thing, it doesn't cost 25/30000 miles to MFU.

When I book and pay for WT+ (Europe-Johannesburg), it usually costs me around £1000. I use 30K miles to upgrade to Club. Being Gold I get more miles awarded, so around 22K miles are redeposited to my account.

It costs me 8000 miles to fly CW ^
But those miles that are deposited in your account are included in the GBP 1,000 price of the WTP ticket. Accordingly I think they can be excluded from the analysis.
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