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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 13:45:12 EST
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- From: Craig Rosenberg <CRAIG@CCVM.SUNYSB.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Fare Wars
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.travel-l
- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 22 Jan 93 20:09:25 TUR from <MFRY@BROOK>
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- On Fri, 22 Jan 93 20:09:25 TUR Mary Fry, Acquisitions Librarian said:
- >While it is true that bonus miles (like triple miles promotions) can be
- >used at any time the current segment promotions for all airlines except TWA
- >DO NOT give you bonus miles. You receive one free round trip in the U.S.
- >and maybe the Carribean if you fly eight segments. You must use your free
- >ticket between September and December of this year (I assume Thanksgiving
- >and Christmas are blacked out). TWA gives 10,000 miles for four segments,
- >so it would take eight segments to get a free trip in the U.S. But you can
- >add these miles to any miles you already have and go elsewhere. And of
- >course you also get the actual miles for your flight. So if you flew to LA
- >and stopped over in St. Louis you would get 10,000 bonus miles and about
- >5,000 actual miles. You must make sure you have two different flight
- >numbers.
- >
- >Mary Fry
- >The Brookings Institution Library
- >
- >
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- Mary, Just for the record I checked with my airline AMERICAN , after reading
- this posting again, and they do GIVE BOTH,,, the miles, and the free
- tickets , not an either/or. So, just for the record...
-
- Craig Rosenberg
- > SUNY Computing
-