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Originally Posted by ken0042
But Dan, in your examples you make no mention of the fees that Airmiles charges over and above your points redeemed.
Using your $174 savings example, if they charge you $90 in fees, then you only save $84, so those miles are work 9.3¢ each. And this thread is all about the fees that A/M charges.
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thats why i said
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Originally Posted by dan02
no flights are by far the best value, just not to the common destinations.
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If i may use the last example, total fees including their insurance despite my protestations, was around 220$, costing 1800 airmiles. To purchase return tickets on this flight would have been 996$ plus 163$ in fees. So the fees are roughly 60$ higher on this flight but they included airmiles insurance for if you were to cancel. So my net savings was 939$(roughly) for 1800 airmiles or 0.52$ value per airmile. Currently this flight would only cost me 728$ resulting in a after fee value of rouhgly 0.37$ per air mile. Much better value then anything you can get in terms of merchandise.
I don't think you get your moneys worth on any of the popular routes like CGY/VCR/EDM but if you're flying on the small jets(Tango) to destinations that one have 1 flight per day you can save a ton of money even after fees are included.