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Originally posted by OTW
Hey man, I used to get paid to do that!
As far as redeeming 25K/35K (from Hawaii) miles on United, you wouldn't believe how creative I had to get. Since Saver seats are often very limited and inventory control usually doesn't replenish the supply right away, many of the favorable routes tend to be sold out.
I once had to route a lady from HNL-LAX-PDX-DEN-DRO for her outbound, then for her return she went DRO-DEN-ORD-LAX-HNL...just so she could use her 35K.
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Oh, that's nothing...you should go to
www.flyertalk.com and look in the Mileage Run forum...there's guys there that do routings even crazier than that just to maximise the miles!
BTW, it's common knowledge that domestic coach awards are some of the worst value around...while Hawaii is probably the exception, you always get more $/mile if you do International First or Business class tickets.