Originally Posted by
Brendan
Not quite. $17.50 is the regular price for 500 *points; the discount price is $14. So it's $560 to buy the max of 20K to get 25,000 AA miles
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If you are within striking distance of 1MM or 2 MM on AA this is a plausible alternaltive to a MR to pick up miles. For $560 if you are extremely lucky you might be able to get two return flight to somewhere that could net you say 2,000 miles each way for a total of say 8,000 miles with PLT bonus. The 25,000 from SPG is good value relative to this and you do not have to waste time flying.