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Old Jan 4, 2012 | 10:52 am
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Originally Posted by crimson12
This is very strange. I was at the AI office in New York just yesterday where the woman told me that I needed to buy a V-class ticket and upgrade it, and that the upgrade cost 183k miles per person. Because I have "only" 280k miles, I then would have needed to buy the balance of the miles, which would have added another $1500. So for two r/t business class tickets, I was looking at $1500 + (cost of two V-class tickets).

Do you think it might have to do with the dates? Perhaps an award redemption was not available for those dates so she looked at upgrades? But why would upgrades cost as much/more than a redemption??
have you tried redeeming online. I heard they have a good online system now which is glitch free. and if you need to use the office, look up flyingreturns.co.in and take a print for them to see about the mileage requirements
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