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Are you milecards by any chance?  ::)

every other post of your 8 posts has a link for milecards...
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Are you milecards by any chance?  ::)

every other post of your 8 posts has a link for milecards...
Good call.  Disclosure would have been nice.
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Good call.  Disclosure would have been nice.

What are forum rules on not disclosing and advertising your own agenda ?

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The rule of the brain comes in handy

Exactly

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Are you milecards by any chance?  ::)

every other post of your 8 posts has a link for milecards...
+100 i gotta start putting 2+2 together
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+100 i gotta start putting 2+2 together

No need there's a few fine detectives on this forum😜

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With a brief overview I have the following questions to the OP / blogger:

Since when can you search Aeroflot on Delta.com?

Why doesn't he mention Vietnam Air which has better availability than any of their partners?

Why no word about Kenya, which is available 80% of the time?

How about Aerolineas Argentinas, which is also extremely good on awards?

Has he ever successfully booked an Air Tahiti Nu that he is calling is "generous availability"? the EF availability doesn't seem to apply to partners. if you want to see partner availability, the way is searching Qantas.com, and you can probably only find a handful a year.


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I write for it. Figured putting a link in the signature that appears on every post, whether related or not, would be overkill.

Good catch on Aeroflot - too many searches recently had SVO connections popping up on Alitalia, and branded in my head that was Aeroflot avail popping up.

Made the list for US gateway cities, so didn't tackle Vietnam, Kenya, et al. Was booking an award to Italy and put together the list of Alitalia gateways before looking up flights and figured why not fill in other US gateways.

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Good catch on Aeroflot - too many searches recently had SVO connections popping up on Alitalia, and branded in my head that was Aeroflot avail popping up.

And with Aeroflot recently taking down the O class, I am not sure if it's currently bookable at all. I least I haven't figured it out.
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Seems like the 'blog' is simply a way of pimping cc links.
Not so cool, especially since the content has potential.