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Old May 19, 2015 | 5:22 pm
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Originally Posted by czpdx
I would love more low-mileage redemptions on AS for short hops. With work and a young family, I'm not in a position to take a J or F trip to Europe anytime soon, so I'd rather be using my miles to save money flying the kids on vacations or to visit family (OR-CA/NV usually). On those routes, redemptions often return less than 1.0 cents per mile in value, so I tend not to use the miles and they just pile up. This is an area where WN's points system is more useful to me. Low-miles redemptions would be a nice middle ground.

The spring mileage sale was nice and I did redeem 10,000 miles for a RNO-PDX RT for my mom. Considering the ticket would have been $200ish, that's a good value.
Then you should consider BAEC as an alternative. You can fly AS/AA/US using BAEC for as low as 2500 miles each way + $30 for anything that is less than 650 miles in distance.
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