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Old May 6, 2011 | 10:38 am
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Originally Posted by josephstern
That doesn't sound good at all - a 1% cash back card, essentially?
Not if you buy airline tickets to earn sufficient Flight Points. This is a gimmick which doubles your ThankYou points on each dollar, and the points are worth $0.0133 when redeemed for air travel. Essentially it's $0.0266 per dollar if both your spending and redeeming patterns are a good match.

This is better than a card which awards one airline mile per dollar, but not as good as those which award 1.25 or more miles per dollar.
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