The AP rip off--must be Guinness Book Record
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The AP rip off--must be Guinness Book Record
How much is ridiculous? I was looking at YYZ-EZE tickets for Sep 20111--did not sign in--AFAIK J class AP tickets are 75000 points each to South America--no seats available. So out of curiosity I clicked on extra value awards and yes--there were 2 seats available--are you sitting down?--for 1,398,000 points!! I haven't been following this but it seems appropriate for the record books!! Here I thought 300,000 points for a TV was too much.
I usually value AP points at 4c--so two tickets would be 56,000 dollars!! Wow!!
I usually value AP points at 4c--so two tickets would be 56,000 dollars!! Wow!!
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I've seen YYC-YYZ-CDG available in J/I for 1.8 million Aeroplan miles per seat. Absolutely nuts for us FTers. I would never do it, nor would anyone I associate with.
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How much is ridiculous? I was looking at YYZ-EZE tickets for Sep 20111--did not sign in--AFAIK J class AP tickets are 75000 points each to South America--no seats available. So out of curiosity I clicked on extra value awards and yes--there were 2 seats available--are you sitting down?--for 1,398,000 points!! I haven't been following this but it seems appropriate for the record books!! Here I thought 300,000 points for a TV was too much.
I usually value AP points at 4c--so two tickets would be 56,000 dollars!! Wow!!
I usually value AP points at 4c--so two tickets would be 56,000 dollars!! Wow!!
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Stop freaking out... It's the J class price with a 1 cent a point valuation to buy the seats, same as the TV. Other airlines have the same thing. SQ just introduced multi-million point redemptions for the new Suites product.
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Really!! Nice to know I can save all this much. My 20111 was because I got carried away--in case you didn't figure it out--it should read 2011!! Maybe AP should have Lotto AP 9--pay 100,000 miles for a lotto ticket and you can win 2 tickets for a specially enhanced price of 2.5MM points and no extra charges!!
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