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Jun 10, 2011 | 6:43 pm

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Originally Posted by robyng

FWIW - the Holy Grail of many old time FF people like me is free front of the plane international travel. It's where you're getting at least $4-8 or sometimes more per mile. A lot of us old-timers got used to being able to get it. If we saved our miles - and were patient. And planned our trips carefully. Now - it's seems to be on its way to becoming an historical footnote. Robyn

Yeah, don't know about that $4-8 figure. The all time best redemption I found was TW's 40k one free FC and one FC UPG on any fare US-Europe, generating about 12 to 20 cpm value. Now it's about 11 cpm for CX FC 135k AA US-Asia, so really not much difference.

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