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Jun 10, 2011 | 5:45 pm

#32

broadwayblue

Join Date: Dec 2001

Location: NYC

Programs: AA LT PLT, SPG Gold

Posts: 2,567

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Originally Posted by slider34

Thanks for letting me know MCO is difficult to obtain.

I'm under the mindset that if I can't get $1.00 per mile I don't use miles. So for me to fly to Orlando and use 50,000 round trip that would mean I can't find flights for less than $500.00 which is never the case. Thus I would just pay for the flights instead and save the miles for another day.

If I had a million miles lying around or didn't travel often then it would be a different story.

I think you mean $0.01/mile. At $1/mile you wouldn't use miles for any 50k mile award that cost less than $50,000... lol

Personally I don't use miles unless I can get at least $0.02/mile.

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