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Old Oct 15, 2014, 3:35 am
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mvoight
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Originally Posted by MilesDavis11
I have an itinerary on hold for 2 R/T tickets to Puerto Vallarta in February 2015. The flights would be $2,500 retail.

The award redemption is 150,000 AA pts and $900 in taxes/fees. It's been a while since I've booked an AA award flight, but this seems really high. Is this typical? Any way around it?
It sounds really wrong. Additionally, AAdvantage uses miles, not points
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