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Old Nov 21, 2013, 5:40 am
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Kay_nyc
 
Join Date: Jul 2011
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Originally Posted by KathinJax
Is anybody redeeming for economy tickets to Europe? My mother has the card and she is telling me that she priced out 2 tickets to Europe for 100,000 points. The cash ticket price is about $1500. If so, then this is a great deal as you are up to 3 cpp.

Her points start expiring in June and we are trying strategize the best use for them (plus, she is not quite at 100,000 points)
I don't understand how that would work. The site has always priced my tickets at the rate I expected based on fares I found on ITA.

I suppose if you don't have any points with the legacy carriers, Europe in low season would make sense.

I used up all of my points on cheap domestic tickets for weekend getaways. That said, I travel a lot (at least one major international trip a year, a shorter weeklong trip, plus short breaks over long weekends), and I try not to fritter away up my more valuable point on the short hops.
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