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Old Jun 16, 2021 | 1:27 pm
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Originally Posted by artemis
Delta and American both want around 300k per person for one-way business class tickets! Alas, I simply don't have 900,000 SkyMiles or AAdvantage miles, so that's out. But with such ridiculous redemption prices added to the hassles of finding available ff tickets and the inferior schedules and routings such tickets usually have, it's getting harder to justify not just buying the cheapest suitable ticket with cash.
At least in the US with 2-6% cash back in the picture with card use, airline miles from bank card use are even more out of the picture for me than they already were.

And airline miles earning from flight tickets for award flight tickets are increasingly just bad background music for me. Why? Because the airline rebate currency of miles/points are of such questionable value that collecting them from flight tickets for flight tickets is like storing casino chips from a casino that cheats so badly — by artificially worsening odds for all but the casino — that most all the casino customers in the know have left and the residual customers are not sufficient to keep the crooked casino in business like it used to be.
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