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   posted: Dec. 21, 2008 @ 12:21p

buying tickets with ppe card will earn you double miles / points for the miles you fly .


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   posted: Dec. 21, 2008 @ 12:24p

i paid 10$ to book award travel with Delta/nwa/continetal and got 4000+ miles for each roundtrip coast to coast . nothing beats this deal of PPE card.
CreditGuy said:With the PPE and matching flight points do you have to use the rewards for flights or does it just go into the general ThankYou point tally? The points go into your general TYP tally and can be used for any TYP reward. Once they're released from the PPE account, they're the same as any other Thank You points.


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   posted: Dec. 21, 2008 @ 1:02p

yeah, as I've said I am not aware that anything has changed. Award flights appear in the same format on your statement as paid flights, not sure how Citi would even know they were awards unless they kept a database of what each fare class means for each airline, and frankly, I don't see why they would care at all.

I am clarifying that we are talking about awards using airline miles, not fixed-point awards using The Thank You Network account center - those have never earned flight points.


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   posted: Feb. 13, 2009 @ 6:53p

I just booked a fixed price domestic ticket a couple nights ago for 20,000 points and was charged $103 for taxes. Does this seem unusually high?


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   posted: Feb. 13, 2009 @ 8:55p

From where to where? It's not all that unusual, sometimes it has to do with the airlines. I was checking flights to London and the taxes for a flight with British Airways were double of that of taxes for American Airlines.


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   posted: Feb. 13, 2009 @ 9:23p

client9 said:I just booked a fixed price domestic ticket a couple nights ago for 20,000 points and was charged $103 for taxes. Does this seem unusually high?

the answer is that TYN charges you Expedia's taxes and fees as well as the US excise tax, which is 7.5% of the 'base' fare but doesn't show up separately under Expedia's 'taxes.'

So if Expedia shows your base fare is $399 and taxes $45, you will be asked to pay 399/1.075 = $28 + $45 = $73 in taxes/fees. You can therefore request a slightly more expensive ticket than it appears: $430 "Expedia base" + taxes/fees, since $429/1.075 < $400.


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