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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh?

Last spring break, we flew to France for 120K points and $1K in taxes. 4 tickets on KLM.

This spring break, we are flying to Zurich. 140K points and $1K in taxes. 4 tickets again.

We stayed 4 nights in a suite in NYC with the kids for Veterans Day weekend. All the holiday decor is already up. It was 90K points total, I booked it one month out.

Booking 5 days out for a holiday weekend? Of course there is NOTHING left. [/quote]

140k points is worth $1400. You spent $2400 on four tickets to Zurich. I don't know when your spring break is but ours is early April and right now I can get basic seats for $708 each. Would have been cheaper had I booked months ago, I am sure.

I know I glanced at flights to Amsterdam for mid March a few weeks ago and it was 550ish on Icelandair.

This proves the point that reward flights credit cards are rarely worth it for most people once you realize you're rarely getting anything better than the cash value equivalent of the points. [/quote]

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