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Old Dec 6, 2011 | 9:34 am
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Originally Posted by edrags
I also wouldn't normally buy a coach ticket and use miles to upgrade, but SQ is currently selling S-coded coach tickets for $1,860 that allow me to make over 30,000 Continental EQMs (at 150% EQM credit). It's a decent mileage run (2.4 cents per eqm) in a year where I expect to struggle to re-qualify for 1K. The upgrade to biz will cost me 170,000 SQ miles with the 15% online discount.
Good point -- for people for whom RDM is not the be all and end all but instead are most focused on status and maintaining it, Amex can be the better option if what you are hoping for is to upgrade to the front part of the plane to make mileage runs for status more comfortable.
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