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Old May 29, 2014 | 6:38 pm
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Originally Posted by swamyb
I wanted 75k miles to book an award travel. I compared the fare and the cost of buying miles. Looks like they want 2100 for 75k miles plus my 15k miles for a RT tix between sfo and mad. I searched their fare, it only costs 1400. Why somebody buy miles when one can have cheaper fare?
It very much depends on what you are redeeming the miles for, and whether you are buying the miles when AA is running a sale on them.
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