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Jan 17, 2025 | 1:49 pm

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Adam Smith

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Originally Posted by calpaugh

So, explain to me, how a business class redemption with "0% in Business Class" is in fact a business class redemption.

So for 164,600 points you can purchase a business class redemption ticket with none of the travel actually in business class. zero.

Does anybody do this? Why?

Are you sure none of the travel is in business class? I'm willing to bet the YYJ-YVR flight is operated by a CR9 and you'll get J on that segment, but the 39 miles out of 9,041 total is 0.4% and thus rounds down to 0%.

Is anyone knowingly going to pay 110K extra points just to sit in J on that 20-minute flight? Of course not.

Mark Nasr said they didn't want to decide what to offer people - show it to them and let them decide whether they want to pay the extra points for whatever portion they get in the higher cabin. Which in theory is nice - customer choice is good! - but it does generate ludicrous results at times.

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