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Old Nov 17, 2010 | 7:20 pm
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Originally Posted by fastair
My own number crunching says if u made 1k at 100 segments and 70k miles, you paid less that the same flying with 100k miles, as you had to buy more tickets and more segments to hit the 100k miles. That math is irrefutable.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Haven't we seen plenty instances of $200 transcons and $500+ sub-1000 mile flights?
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