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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 4:26 pm
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ClimbGuy
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Originally Posted by jackal
If they were a little less stingy with giving AGR points for LD travel, I'd probably feel guilty about trying to help ClimbGuy "cheat" Amtrak, but as it is now, it's impossible to earn any decent amount of points unless you take Acela... (but let's not get started arguing about that again...)
Not to start a fight with someone else, but I don't think the problem with AGR is that they don't give out enough points for LD trains, but that award trips are not inline with NEC trains. The typical ticket from NYP-WAS for tomorrow cost $111 on a regional in coach and cost 3,000 points or $.037 per point. A train from NYP to CHI is $126 but cost 8,000 points or $.016 per point.

I know that you can find crazy LD routings like SDL-WAS-CHI-PDX-LAX in a bedroom for two which cost about $2,800 for 30,000 agr points or $.093 per point. However redemptions like that are atypical.
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