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Apr 4, 2024 | 6:32 am

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craigthemif

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Originally Posted by LongGun

Thank you, SK AAR. I think I would struggle to earn enough miles for a return award flight, before the miles start expiring. I earn about 20,000 miles per trip and only do 2 or 3 a year.

If you are struggling with expiring miles, perhaps you should be looking at a *A FFP that either doesn't expire miles or lets you keep them with account activity. Aeroplan comes to mind as a reasonable option...

Otherwise, it does make no sense at all to pay to move miles from one account to another, only to receive a small discount on the fare. Marriott is a far better way of topping up your TK balance in order to have enough miles for a one-way or return award.

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