Originally Posted by
diver858
Careful - it is necessary to book the travel through the Premier travel agency, which does not always offer the lowest available fares.
We have been discussing this issue extensively in the last few pages of this thread:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/credi...133-point.html
It seems that you can, in fact, book the lowest available fares, if you book directly with a supervisor at the Thank You travel redemption line.
(Not precisely the lowest fare but the difference is a rounding error of ~1% at that point.)