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Old Sep 26, 2018, 12:10 pm
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Originally Posted by Brendan
I so agree that it's a stupid policy. But it's there in boldface . I wonder what Radisson Rewards gains from it. I would expect that they would rather give us free rooms than buy points from the airlines with real $$ !
Cashing out your RR points at a very, very profitable ratio (10:1- so 100,000 RR points, something that could buy $400 of hotel rooms, turns into 10k airline miles, not even a one way ticket in saver at 12.5k) as opposed to hotel rooms.

There are some occasions where with transfer bonuses a one time cashout of RR->airline miles makes some sense, but you can trigger that without changing your earning...
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