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Old Jul 14, 2023 | 7:52 am
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Originally Posted by bocastephen
Not at all. If you transfer points you end up paying a massive premium for devalued award tickets, then you lose the airlines miles and status points earned back from the revenue ticket and lose the 35% rebate on business class or favorite airline tickets.
I use my MR points to book 5-10k round trip business class tickets for as low as 68k-100k points round trip or as much as 180k round trip to fly on Qatar's business/first class product. Better than paying 370k MR with the rebate just for a 5k ticket but ok.

But thank you for continuing to use MR inefficiently, it helps slow down the devalues!
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