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Old Apr 21, 2015 | 2:30 pm
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Originally Posted by CaroPalms
...to book a $500 flight on American, I would need to have 50,000 points in my MR account and then have 15,000 credited back
Correct, which means your net redemption would be 35,000 points, $0.0142857 per point, but it hooks you into continuing in the program.
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