Just to muddle the decision a bit more, I factor in the miles I am losing by getting my ticket with miles. For instance because of premium class booking I get double miles. So flying down under in Biz gets me about 60k miles. I have platinum status with Delta which gets me an additional 9 miles per dollar spent so about another 9000 miles. If I use a delta branded Amex card I get double points. So you need to figure it’s going to cost x miles to get an award ticket but in doing it that way I am losing the almost 70 k miles I would have earned. It’s all very complicated n’est pas? Kinda fun tho when you score a great deal. ———————- Helen
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