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Old Apr 21, 2011 | 12:18 pm
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Originally Posted by keithwang
I have 100,000 miles from first round Chase promotion in late 2009. [...] Is there any good way to redeem BA miles to make it worth a least 1 cent per mile?
Where do you want to go? And (as guv1976 already asked) where will you be starting from?

Originally Posted by bernardd
Errr, no, you could have got:

a) the same miles on other carriers which only pass on Government taxes, ie the airline portion of the award / reward is free
How could OP have got that? The offer he refers to was only available from Chase for the BA Visa card. When it comes to miles for credit card spend there is obviously a choice, but with this particular sign-up bonus there wasn't.

Originally Posted by bernardd
the combination of BA & Chase is amongst the least attractive options out there
For many people it's not as attractive as it first appears, that's true. But for many of us the Chase BA Visa is an incredible deal.

Last edited by IMH; Apr 21, 2011 at 12:42 pm Reason: added missing word ("with")
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