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Old Sep 13, 2013 | 1:20 am
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Originally Posted by svasandani
I know 1.2 cpm is not a very good value but again what I was hoping to get out of others is potentially some program, I may not be aware of,that requires much less miles and taxes and is a transfer partner with UR, MR or SP. e.g. In the US I can use BA Avios for short haul flights less than 650 miles (PVG - ICN is only 511 miles) and fly RT for only 9K miles.
JL also does distance based awards, and you can use JL points to book MU flights. But, transferring points to JL and playing by their "rules" (they have lots of policies that don't make a lick of sense) is more trouble than it's worth.
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