Originally Posted by
Lane412000
I have been looking for BE award flights MSY-ATL-JNB and GIG-ATL-MSY for November 22nd outbound and December 12th return. I could never get miles under 320,000 per passenger until yesterday when I changed the return to a December 13th return and miles per passenger dropped to 200,000 to cover the flights. I jumped on that bad boy before the Delta computers realized it was me and would bump the miles back up.
So, I was able to save 240,000 miles by staying an additional day in Rio De Janeiro
You would have been able to find that out yourself by first looking at just one way flights MSY-JNB and one way flights GIG-MSY. That would have told you that the return flights were what were bumping up the mileage. Once you find the dates for the pricing level you want, you can then choose those dates like you did for (hopefully) the price you expect.