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Old Jan 22, 2020 | 6:41 pm
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Jimmie Jet
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Originally Posted by leoo
I second the opinion that PlusPoints can be very valuable if you have flexibility.
I used 360 PlusPoints for travel in 2020 with 9 TATL/TPAC segments cleared at booking and 1 upgraded to RN and waitlisted for PZ.

When considering to push for 1K last year, I was concerned that I wouldn't be able to use all my GPUs (given the horror stories in this thread) but booking in advance and having flexibility to travel mid-week, it wasn't a problem. And I'll be traveling exactly where I want to travel (TPE/HKG/MEL/SYD/ICN/TLV/AMS).

The change to PlusPoints was a great surprise because I didn't value RPUs much.
i am down to my last 20 plus points , the sweet spot was Tuesday across the pacific
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