Thanks for your responses everybody.

Cigarman included I realized this quickly which is why I didn't buy the first ticket.

StudentFlyer....

You need to redeem 40,000 miles with CDN+ to go round trip anywhere in South America from Canada. It's not a bad deal either.

motnot and Dorian...

I didn't buy the ticket from MIA to GIG...........I anted up another $210 CDN and am paying to go from YYC-SDU on my usual route and am going to collect the full airmiles reward from CDN+.

Apparently the problem, according to my agent, is that the "ticketing country" is not the "country of origin" of the flight I wanted to purchase and it results in a higher fare. It's a good explanation, but is it true ?

"Bait and Switch" I've also experienced before....and I suspected this was the case as well after some more research.

Thanks again.



[This message has been edited by Carioca Canuck (edited 06-20-2000).]