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Old Oct 13, 2019, 7:10 am
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highupinthesky
 
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Originally Posted by SK2751
IMHO: there are two good uses for points short haul Europe: (1) tickets on short notice, as fassy says and (2) upgrades for status (You effectively pay 3250 status points to gain 1750 points basic points, at least so far; so especially for folks that value status over award flights this is, so far, a very good avenue to maintain status without flying more; the return in basic points is better then on long haul typically; and I do hate hate hate MRs).
I agree with both options. Specially because if you want to buy the basic points, you have to pay 10K extra points for 1K basic points.
Unfortunately it looks like the second option will go away soon.
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