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Old Nov 14, 2021 | 2:36 am
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Originally Posted by notquiteaff
Welcome to Flyertalk Please look at the various threads in the Amex forum like

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/amer...ly-2020-a.html

to find out how to use the credits without encountering an actual airline fee.

(the wiki has links to the ones for other participating airlines)
It looks like there are a few workarounds with Delta...but boy do some of them seem clumsy. "Fees on a mileage ticket" seems like the most effective option (particularly if that "hits" on an other-airline award redemption, given some things like APD from the UK).

[Of course, I say this as a guy who once spent a day driving around to every Office Depot [IIRC] in his area to buy discounted gift cards and then another week or two liquidating them via RedBird, so it's all relative...]

Edit: And as a note, this thread was initially posted over in Hyatt-land.
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