If you are flying AA and you have a citibank platinum world master card you can get a ticket to Toronto for 2nd quarter (April 1 through June 30) for 7500 less which is 17,500. I just booked three. If you have a gold card, it is 5000 less. If you don't have a card it may be worth getting one - there are 10K bonus miles for getting one floating around. Also if you book it online you get 1000 miles. You would just hold it, then call, give the locator number and they will "reprice" it when you give them the award code. I think at 17,500 (really 16,500) it is a bargain. Otherwise my ticket would have been $253 and I wouldn't get many miles for that trip. I think it is considering both cost and how many miles you would get for a paid ticket. From Chicago, a flight to Toronto give 500 miles each way. I won't be platinum anymore so I would get a 25% bonus. The online booking bonus is the same as booking the award online. In contrast my trip to Spain cost $459 and I ended up with 28K miles. So there is a lot to weigh. If you could do it for 16.5K net then it is definitely worth it.

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Ms.DtG

[This message has been edited by dgordon (edited 02-20-2003).]