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AGR Insider
travel Amtrak from September 5 through November 16, 2012 to earn double points on all Amtrak travel.
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To clarify, not ALL Amtrak travel is eligible for double points. Only the first two one-way trips per day. So if you are leaving CHI, NYP, LAX, WAS, EMY, PHL etc on an expensive sleeper ticket, do NOT take a quickie round-trip points run earlier in the day on a local corridor train. Because in all likelihood your cheapie r/t tickets will max you out on the double points, and your pricey sleeper ticket will just earn the normal rate.