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Old Jun 16, 2014 | 8:47 am
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skycrab
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Originally Posted by a9504477
how would 20K miles be worth $1800?

in CC i think GPUs were frequently traded for excerts of $250-300
Oh, I'm not looking to trade/sell, but rather trying to work out whether buying 40K Premier accelerator, which will put me over 150K this year, giving me 4 extra RPUs and 2 extra GPUs (and 40K extra RDM) is worth it.

to earn 20K RDM in 2015, a spend of $1818 (excluding taxes) would be needed, right?
If that's true, then upgrading with miles would cost 20K miles + $550 on the cheapest fare a GPU can be used on.
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