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Old Nov 30, 2010, 11:26 am
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travelmad478
 
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: MSY
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Originally Posted by violist
I discover, for example, that I can leave the house here, immediately get on a USAircraft, and turn around in Tampa (or stay there some days, my choice), 4 segs and 2500 miles for $205 all in, not exactly mileage run material, but for 2 hr in advance it's pretty decent.
I'm doing Tampa for lunch in about two weeks for a year-end-top-up-to-get-*A Premier mileage run. I used a brute force approach to find the cheapest flight that gave me just enough miles. Tampa won at $188, and with a two-hour turnaround, I've already picked out which restaurant I'll be eating at in the terminal
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