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Old May 29, 2015, 6:23 pm
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Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
We can think of the refund of fees on the award ticket as just about covering the cancel/redeposit fee.

Also, we didn't consider whether dad could use some MQMs and RDMs on DL or some other SkyTeam program. Of course, the value of the miles won't matter if they're going to be orphaned, but this trip would come close to a domestic coach RT award ticket and would be more than enough for a low one way award ticket.
Fees x2 - Delta award redeposit + AS cancellation.

270,000 is a lot of miles to have paid for a TATL trip in the first place. If one would pay CAD $3299 for a J ticket, I'd probably redeposit the miles and try to get 2 TATL round trips out of them.
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