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Old Oct 27, 2006 | 6:34 am
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Originally Posted by og
Actually, I had a real struggle to convince QF that MPN was part of South America when I tried to redeem a FF ticket SCL-MPN. They said (under the old QF rules) that it was British and therefore part of Britain. That meant a 100,000 point ticket whereas my logic said it was Sth America and hence a 40,000 point ticket. I eventually won by ringing back several times and getting someone who agreed with me.
Interesting! So by those rules, I could have flown from HEL to Stanley on an Intra-European award (is it 20K on QF?). Might actually have made such a trip had I known about this.
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