Miles & More (Lufthansa, Austrian, Swiss, and other partners) - Redemption offer: LH Italy for 5000/8000 miles roundtrip

Seems Lufthansa Italy is dying for any passenger they can get - I have yet to see such low redemption-levels:

Italien Special
Flugroute Meilenpreis Buchungszeitraum Reisezeitraum
Mailand-Malpensa von/nach Barcelona 8.000 anstatt 30.000 Meilen 01.11.2009 - 30.11.2009 05.11.2009 - 31.01.2010
Mailand-Malpensa von/nach Budapest 8.000 anstatt 30.000 Meilen 01.11.2009 - 30.11.2009 05.11.2009 - 31.01.2010
Mailand-Malpensa von/nach Bukarest 8.000 anstatt 30.000 Meilen 01.11.2009 - 30.11.2009 05.11.2009 - 31.01.2010
Mailand-Malpensa von/nach Lissabon 8.000 anstatt 30.000 Meilen 01.11.2009 - 30.11.2009 05.11.2009 - 31.01.2010
Mailand-Malpensa von/nach London Heathrow 8.000 anstatt 30.000 Meilen 01.11.2009 - 30.11.2009 05.11.2009 - 31.01.2010
Mailand-Malpensa von/nach Madrid 8.000 anstatt 30.000 Meilen 01.11.2009 - 30.11.2009 05.11.2009 - 31.01.2010
Mailand-Malpensa von/nach Paris 8.000 anstatt 30.000 Meilen 01.11.2009 - 30.11.2009 05.11.2009 - 31.01.2010
Mailand-Malpensa von/nach Bari 5.000 anstatt 25.000 Meilen 01.11.2009 - 30.11.2009 05.11.2009 - 31.01.2010
Mailand-Malpensa von/nach Neapel 5.000 anstatt 25.000 Meilen 01.11.2009 - 30.11.2009 05.11.2009 - 31.01.2010
Mailand-Malpensa von/nach Rom 5.000 anstatt 25.000 Meilen 01.11.2009 - 30.11.2009 05.11.2009 - 31.01.2010

8K for international and 5K for domestic destinations look like a final fire-sale in my eyes...

Greetings - Dirk

Hmmm.

8000 miles + £102 in 'tax' for a return LHR-MXP, or £99 for a revenue ticket. I wonder which one to choose.

Hmmm.

8000 miles + £102 in 'tax' for a return LHR-MXP, or £99 for a revenue ticket. I wonder which one to choose.

Exactly. They know you won't pay more in taxes than for the revenue ticket, so you'll be paying 20000 miles if you want to include taxes.

It's only worth it if your travel dates have quite high fares.

Too bad they do not offer the same deal the other way. All flights to MXP 8k miles...