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Old Dec 17, 2011 | 6:50 am
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Originally Posted by raka2000
Thanks WineCountryUA. So the miles I will buy are regular miles for reward ticket and to get to Elite I need to pay almost $800. So, when people talked about getting a ticket and paying for additional miles and then cancelling the ticket in 24 hours. They mean buying the Elite Maximizer miles that cost so much more. Is this really worth it?
$800 for silver? IMO no. Between bag fees and ELR if your travel for next year is still ~25k miles you'll do better just paying for those yourself. You could get one of the UA/CO credit cards for the bags and priority boarding (and RDMs).
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