Tell me if this makes any since. Cheapest available for AGS-EGE (via ATL of course) for 1/4 departure, 2/8 return prices out at $1,108.80 (all H fares, nothing cheaper, even for the AGS-ATL ATL-AGS legs).

Yet, my mother manages to book the exact same itinerary for 25,000 miles (I saw it with my own two eyes, otherwise I wouldn't have believed it). AND, miles tickets are still pricing out for 25k when I look at it. I am baffled.