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Old May 9, 2011 | 5:07 pm
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Open an Amex account. Buy 500k amex points = $12500. Transfer to airline of choice after holding a reservation to make sure that it is available. Get 4 tickets in business class. Then wonder, why did I not buy the tickets directly for the same price....

Originally Posted by Neal_xlm
points would be used for an internal promotion
All airlines allow businesses to buy miles directly.

e.g., United charges 2.75c each. You are then limited to a maximum of 30,000 miles per year per recipient account.
http://www.ualmiles.com/RewardMiles....nds+and+family
If I really wanted a lot of United miles till Sep 30th, I would buy Amex as much as I can, transfer to my continental account and then transfer to UA at once, 200,000 each day.

Delta - incentives program
http://www.delta.com/skymiles/buy_tr...ives/index.jsp

US airways Had something very similar, but cannot seem to find it now.
http://www.usairways.com/en-US/divid...s/default.html

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