Originally Posted by
a9504477
I didn't book any IB flights as the promo just seemed to good to be true, so don't have a stake. But it does put a different spin on the promo - maybe it was all well thought through and they expected people to get greedy and generate multiple accounts so that they can now use the funds from the flights that were booked there to fund the payout of the avios? ;-)
Don't think so. I can book a round trip from São Paulo to Madrid in Business and still have some avios left. That would cost almost 10x more than I actually paid for the tickets.