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Old Aug 11, 2012, 12:58 pm
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Originally Posted by Jorgen
Well, realistically it's about 150 points for a song that'd be 99 cents on iTunes, so you're getting about 0.65 cents per mile, which is... uhh, not the worst possible redemption.

For infrequent flyers, who might have to fly for years and years in order to save up 25,000 miles for a return ticket to somewhere, this might seem like a good deal. For us, of course, it's rubbish.
And even the FF community might have trouble using miles sometimes, especially with *net blocking.
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